Rethinking factional alliances and union renewal: Inter-union collaboration in the 21st century

Cathy Brigden and Sarah Kaine
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Cathy Brigden: RMIT University, Australia
Sarah Kaine: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2015, vol. 36, issue 2, 239-257

Abstract: In the past two decades, trade unions have sought to counter membership decline, initially through a focus on organizing. More recently the union renewal project has prompted a re-examination of whether unions can use different types of inter-union collaboration to build power for workers and the movement. This article examines two examples of such inter-union collaboration, the Transport Unions Federation and the Australian Workers’ Union–Maritime Union of Australia Offshore Alliance. The development of these organizational relationships is important to the trade union movement in Australia and internationally as examples of new forms of external solidarity.

Keywords: Collaboration; external solidarity; factionalism; organizing; trade unions; union renewal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13501561

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