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vision of labour has sprung upin London, particularly in cleaning work (but also in hotels, retail, catering and
food processing), where workers hold such jobs ‘primarily because of their ethnicity– regardless of their skill capabilities’ (Allen et al.,1998: 105). It is withinthis context of labour market change and labour distribution that the tradeunion movement has been forced into a period of reAssessment and revaluationin order to stem membership decline (Carter, 2000; Hyman, 2002).
The British Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for increased legal
protection for migrants and identified the need for unions to organize this particular
group of workers, and this article examines how one particular union
responded to this challenge (TUC, 2004). The union chosen was a large TUC
affiliate, which considered itself an ‘organizing model’ with a commitment toorganizing migrant workers. The research aimed to analyse the extent to whichthis particular campaign adequately recognized and acknowledged the diversityof the experiences of the BME workforce at the level at which it interfaced withworkers and, if it did, how this affected its organizing approach.
Union organizing, or organizing communities?
The term organizing model is used to describe an approach to union-buildingthat relies on unions facilitating local leadership so that workers are empowered
to act for themselves (Heery et al., 2000a). Its purpose is to foster selfrelianceand collective identity, organizing around issues, which can lead to
increased recruitment and sustained organizing. The organizing model is
described by one group of researchers as a model of good practice which ‘represents
an attempt to rediscover the “social movement” origins of labour, essentially
https://www.51lunwen.org/public/by redefining the union as a mobilizing structure which seeks to stimulate
activism among its members and generate campaigns for workplace and wider
英文论文网social justice’ (Heery et al., 2000b: 996).
In recent years, there have been an increasing number of academic studies
analysing the impact of the new organizing agenda (Charlwood, 2004; Gall,
2003; Heery et al., 2000a, 2000b; Kelly and Willman, 2004) where the role of
union organizers and the outcomes of particular unionization campaigns, as
well as the significance of the right to recognition under the Employment
Relations Act 1999, have been the main areas of research (Gall, 2003; Moore,
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