LABR 2P34 Lecture Notes - Work Council, Co-Determination, Living Wage
19 Nov 2013
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Alliances between trade unions and community groups to organized the unorganized, support autonomous workers" organizations like workers" centers. Community groups spring up rapidly in the 90s should be a match made in heaven for trade unions: structures unions have exclusive membership and mandatory dues. Can only get in the union if you are a worker in a particular work force that is unionized. Trade unions certified by an industry or a workplace, workers centers are geographically and ethically rooted. Most unions are centered in larger workplace, workers center is small. Not formal structures, very flat (not hierarchical) Whereas in a union there is hierarchies and routines. Workers centers see unions as disconnected from the community. Unions see workers center as disorganized: ideologies. Workers centers don"t have to protect (staff, hierarchies, etc) Workers centers concerned about the politics of social reproduction: shelter, food, everything required to reproduce family etc. 3 broad sources of conflict between workers centers and trade unions.
