Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!
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Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building : When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits! / Hansen, Nana Wesley; Krachler, Nick.
In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26.05.2023, p. 1-26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building
T2 - When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!
AU - Hansen, Nana Wesley
AU - Krachler, Nick
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/5/26
Y1 - 2023/5/26
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Coalition
KW - mobilizing
KW - professionals
KW - public sector employment relations
KW - union strategy
U2 - 10.1177/0143831X231173462
DO - 10.1177/0143831X231173462
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85163048667
SP - 1
EP - 26
JO - Economic and Industrial Democracy
JF - Economic and Industrial Democracy
SN - 0143-831X
ER -
ID: 373881033