575 Building Transnational Solidarity among National Labor Movements

Friday, August 3, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
OB 29 (Faculty of Economics)

RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)
Session Organizer:
Robert O'BRIEN, McMaster University, Canada
Chair:
Edward WEBSTER, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Wal-Mart and transnational union solidarity in the South African competition tribunal process (Oral Presentation)
Bridget KENNY, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Transnational solidarity in organizing against Wal-Mart (Oral Presentation)
Carolina BANK MUNOZ, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center-City University of New York, USA

Collective action within cross-border union alliances: Evidence from two contrasting case studies (Distributed Paper)
Melanie DUFOUR-POIRIER, University of Montreal, Canada; Marc-Antonin HENNEBERT, HEC Montreal , Canada

Transnational trade union coalition: Evidence from Chile and Peru (Oral Presentation)
Melanie DUFOUR-POIRIER, University of Montreal, Canada

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