Social Unionism in Hard Times: Union-Community Coalition Politics in the CAW Windsor's Manufacturing Matters Campaign
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Abstract
As many of the traditionally unionized sectors of the economy experience crisis, unions are turning to social unionist strategies of coalition-building and community mobilization as a means of defending jobs through external solidarity. This paper explores the politics and dynamics of the Canadian Auto Workers’ (caw) organization of a union-community coalition and rally in Windsor, Ontario as a means of defending the manufacturing base. The paper contends that while Windsor’s May 2007 Manufacturing Matters rally was quite successful in its short-term aims, due to the caw ’s strong mobilizing structures and longstanding relationships between local unions and community organizations, internal coalition dynamics and framing processes led to decisions which limited the longer-term capacities of the campaign. The coalition opted to emphasize place over class as the unifying element, to produce non-adversarial discourses and tactics so as to avoid appearing anti-business, and to marginalize more militant talk and tactics. These outcomes raise questions about both the sustainability for ongoing solidarity and mobilization amongst the Windsor working class, and the capacity of the local labour movement to articulate counter-hegemonic interpretations of economic problems and promote policy options not dominated by the needs and interests of economic and political elites. Abstract: Etant donne que plusieurs secteurs traditionnellement syndiques connaissent une periode de crise economique, les syndicats se retournent vers des strategies de coalition et de mobilisation communautaire comme un moyen de defendre l’emploi a travers de la solidarite externe. Cet article explore la politique et la dynamique de l’organisation d’une coalition syndicale et communautaire et le rassemblement a Windsor, Ontario par les Travailleurs canadiens de l’automobile (tca), comme un moyen de defendre la base de la fabrication. Le document soutient que bien que le rassemblement a Windsor en mai 2007 soit un succes a court terme, en raison de fortes structures de mobilisation dans le tca et les relations de longue duree entre les syndicats et les organismes communautaires, la dynamique interne de la coalition et les processus discursifs ont conduit a des decisions qui ont limite les capacites a long terme de la campagne. La coalition a opte de souligner le lieu avant la classe sociale comme l’element unificateur, pour produire des discours et des tactiques non conflictuelles afin d’eviter de paraitre anti-entreprise, et de marginaliser les discours et les tactiques plus militantes. Ces resultats soulevent des questions a propos de la durabilite de la solidarite et de la mobilisation parmi la classe ouvriere de Windsor, et aussi de la capacite du mouvement syndical local a articuler des interpretations contre-hegemoniques vers des problemes economiques et de promouvoir les options politiques qui ne sont pas dominees par les besoins et les interets des elites economiques et politiques.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".