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

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Abstract This article examines recent organizing successes in theCarbones delCerrejón coal mine, reversing the organizational crisis of theColombian mining union,Sintracarbon. UsingWever's concept of ‘field‐enlarging strategies’, we argue that these events were facilitated by the dissemination of organizing experiences between affiliates of aGlobalUnionFederation, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), which recently merged to formIndustriALL. Additionally, we argue that this articulation between international and national unions, based on the principle of subsidiarity, was facilitated through sustainedICEMeducational project activity, providing multiple entry points forSintracarbon to operationalize its strategy and re‐establish bargaining with multinational employers.

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