On 15 September a new kind of coalition is launching in Sydney. Its called the Sydney Alliance and while it may be new to the ...
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On 15 September a new kind of coalition is launching in Sydney. Its called the Sydney Alliance and while it may be new to the ...
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Politics in the UK is at a crossroads. The government has presented its vision of a radical overhaul to public spending. A community-based movement involving ...
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From 16-18 February, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have been hosting a national meeting of their municipal employees - under the title "Building ...
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In last week's New Yorker, James Surowiecki has penned a pessimistic picture of unions in the US – declining numbers of union members and the ...
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Across the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, 2010 exposed the limits of progressive politicians, and a growing cynicism about politics generally. Minority governments were ...
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Tweet On 15 September a new kind of coalition is launching in Sydney. Its called the Sydney Alliance and while it may be new to the general public, it is very familiar to the 36 member organisations that are involved. Together – we have been building this coalition since 2007. It was then that I [...]
Tweet Politics in the UK is at a crossroads. The government has presented its vision of a radical overhaul to public spending. A community-based movement involving unions and community organisations is building opposition to this agenda – with the major rally on Saturday 26 March. But like all coalitions between different community-based organisations, the challenge [...]
Tweet Power in Coalition identifies several universal lessons about coalition practice that provide a guide for building sustainable, reciprocal and powerful coalitions. These are not only applicable to relationships between unions and community organisations. In an article published in Brofenbrenner’s edited book Global Unions, Tattersall directly connects findings about coalitions to how and when global [...]
Proposals for union revitalisation suggest the importance of unions reaching out to the community and the formation of union-community coalitions. Yet analysis of how this process of ‘reaching out’ can be most effective for building union power and advancing union renewal is little understood.