Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!
| Autor: | Nana Wesley Hansen, Nick Krachler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Economic and Industrial Democracy. :0143831X2311734 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7099 0143-831X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0143831x231173462 |
| Popis: | Competition between unions whose membership has different skills and professionalization levels is a long-standing issue in the labour movement. This article investigates the conditions for why and how a unique cross-professional coalition of all Danish public-sector unions developed between 2017 and 2018. Operating in a favourable context, unions overcame professionalization differences when skilled brokers primed a common instrumental base as other unionists used a public interest frame to legitimate the coalition and its demands ideologically. However, once the common instrumental concern was met, the coalition collapsed. The article argues that union coalition-building depends on multiple factors comprising both contextual, and identity and relational conditions. The article further argues that adopting a framing that focuses on the public interest over professional self-interest helps to successfully overcome professional cleavages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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