This panel explored how the global mobility of capital and labor creates new challenges and opportunities to unions worldwide. It examined how unions have changed in response to increased mobility, while attempting to ‘stay true’ to what their members and employees perceive unionism to mean.
Six speakers presented and the program was as follows:
Fractured unions: corporate versus independent unions in Mexico’s transnational
agriculture Christian Zlolniski (University of Texas at Arlington)
Highlighting or concealing socialism: two opposed responses of Israeli unions to labor market’s trends Gadi Nissim (Ruppin Academic Center)
Learning to negotiate: collective bargaining, technical knowledge and union subjectivation Thomas McNamara (University of Liege)
Globalized workers and trade unionism in Mexican maquiladoras
Maria De La O (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social)
Shifting from labour rights to human rights in non-financial reporting in Norwegian energy companies Ingrid Birce Muftuoglu (Universitet i Bergen)
Doing global investments the social democratic way: the ‘business case’ for Statoil’s support to union work among its employees in Tanzania Siri Lange (University of Bergen)