Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Contract Workers in the Colombian Mining Industry

View/ open
Author
Cotton, Elizabeth
Royle, Tony
Date
2014-02-07Type
Article
Publisher
Wiley
ISSN
0007-1080
1467-8543 (electronic)
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This article examines recent organizing successes in the Carbones del Cerrejón coal mine, reversing the organizational crisis of the Colombian mining union, Sintracarbon. Using Wever's concept of ‘field-enlarging strategies’, we argue that these events were facilitated by the dissemination of organising experiences between affiliates of a Global Union Federation, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), which recently merged to form IndustriALL. Additionally, we argue that this articulation between international and national unions, based on the principle of subsidiarity, was facilitated through sustained ICEM educational project activity, providing multiple entry points for Sintracarbon to operationalize its strategy and re-establish bargaining with multinational employers.
Journal/conference proceeding
British Journal of Industrial Relations;29(1):704-725
Citation
Cotton, Elizabeth & Royle, Tony. (2014) 'Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Contract Workers in the Colombian Mining Industry', British Journal of Industrial Relations. 29. 704-725. 10.1111/bjir.12029.
Description
Article published in British Journal of Industrial Relations available at https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12029