(totally unrelated to my other thread)
I recently read this - but found it a bit vague and limited:
http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/solidarityunionism
Solidarity unionism seems to involve small informal groups who attempt to make gains through direct action on the job - immediately, rather than after a long process of negotition with the manamgement.
. In the solidarity unionism model, workers themselves formulate strategy and take action against the company directly without mediation from government or paid union representatives.
What do you think of it? Is it a real distinct tendency or nothing new? Can anyone give more information or examples? What interested me was its seeming flexibility and its not being limited to one particular union (and possibility of occurring where ther was no union).
PS above quote came from an IWW starbucks site as does this: