The war on Europe's waterfront - repertoires of power in the port transport industry

Turnbull, Peter John 2006. The war on Europe's waterfront - repertoires of power in the port transport industry. British Journal of Industrial Relations 44 (2) , pp. 305-326. 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2006.00499.x

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Abstract

When the European Commission proposed a Directive On Market Access to Port Services in February 2001, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) issued a declaration of war on Europe’s waterfront. To protect established terms and conditions of employment in the port transport industry, the ITF developed a strategy of internationalization that required dock workers to engage in a new politics of scale wrought by globalization. A new repertoire of collective action — based on more effective union articulation (i.e. stronger interrelationships between the workplace, national and international levels of organization) combined with the activities of new labour networks that connected port workers at the trans-national corporation, port range and pan-European levels — enabled dockers to sink the Directive in the European Parliament in November 2003. The dockers’ victory will not be lost on other European unions or indeed other global union federations, although their success will doubtless prove more difficult for other occupational groups to emulate.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) V Naval Science > V Naval Science (General)
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0007-1080
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 23:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42534

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