Tattersall, Amanda. 2006. "Bringing the community in: Possibilities for public sector union success through community unionism." International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management 6(2): 186-199.
- public sector unions are starting to lose out to conservative governments (187)
- this paper is describing the New South Wales Teacehrs Federation experiments with community unionism (187)
- tough to really define community unions 9187-188)
- can be understood as the intersection of unionism and three types of commnity:
- community organizing
- people with common interests (sort of identity)
- and geograhic areas
- literature says community unionism works best when there is a relational component, a shared interest, and a shared goegraphy (188)
- geographers say community unionism is most likely to happen when there is a spatial fix on capital (it can't run away)
- article is about a campaign from 2001-2004 (188-189)
- went for school improvement through a borad-based campaign in favor of public education after big budget cuts (189)
- three major innovations: (190)
- a fee to fund proactive campaigning
- create education lobby groups that cover an electoral area
- find common ground with principals
- an inquiry into public education included tight cooperation between unions and parent groups, which paid dividends (191-192)
- out of this grew a public education alliance that included principals and administrators (192-193)
- needed careful balancing to make sure teachers till got salaries, but other alliance members weren't feeling like they were just helping improve teachers' salaries (192)
- these sorts of internal demands that alliance member-groups had were dangerous to the alliance, need to remember alliance members were autnomous organizatiosn with their own goals (193)
- at one point the parent's group voted to support s NSWTF strike! (194)
- but alliance foundered a bit after winning stuff, and split once salary negotations started (195)
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