When local class unionism meets international solidarity: A case of union revitalisation in Turkey
dc.contributor.author | Birelma, Alpkan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-29T06:00:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-29T06:00:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1918-6711 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10679/6241 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3336 | |
dc.description.abstract | The article concerns the recent transformation and ensuing successes of a Turkish trade union of road transport workers called Tum Tasima Iscileri Sendikasi (TUMTIS). In the mid-2000s, TUMTIS was mainly organised in small-sized freight companies having around 1 500 members with collective contracts. The strategic choice of a new leadership to concentrate on a large-scale, international firm with the support of Global Unions was the turning point. The ensuing United Parcel Service campaign ended with a collective agreement for nearly 2 700 new members in 2011. The union won its second large-scale organising victory at DHL in 2014. At the time of writing, a third large-scale firm is on the verge of recognition. To scrutinise this case, I use the power resources approach in a critical way. To the approach, I add an examination of the subjectivities of union leaders by drawing on the debates about different types of unionisms, importance of the ideology and motivations. I argue that the agency behind this revitalisation can be only explained by taking both its objectivities and subjectivities into account. While the class unionism embraced by TUMTIS leaders explains the subjective side of the story, associational power from below and its meeting with international solidarity play the key role on the objective side. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Friedrich Ebert Stiftung's Trade Unions in Transformation Project | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | McMaster University | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Global Labour Journal | |
dc.rights | openAccess | |
dc.title | When local class unionism meets international solidarity: A case of union revitalisation in Turkey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Publisher version | en_US |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | en_US |
dc.publicationstatus | Published | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Özyeğin University | |
dc.contributor.authorID | (ORCID 0000-0003-1667-8556 & YÖK ID 274139) Birelma, Alpkan | |
dc.contributor.ozuauthor | Birelma, Alpkan | |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 215 | en_US |
dc.identifier.endpage | 230 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000433918600007 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Labour | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Trade union revitalisation | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Power resources | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Union ideology | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Turkey | en_US |
dc.contributor.authorMale | 1 | |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Article - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff |
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