Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Contract Workers in the Colombian Mining Industry

This article examines recent organizing successes in the C arbones del C errejón coal mine, reversing the organizational crisis of the C olombian mining union, S intracarbon. Using W ever's concept of ‘field‐enlarging strategies’, we argue that these events were facilitated by the dissemination of organizing experiences between affiliates of a G lobal U nion F ederation, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions ( ICEM ), which recently merged to form I ndustri ALL . Additionally, we argue that this articulation between international and national unions, based on the principle of subsidiarity, was facilitated through sustained ICEM educational project activity, providing multiple entry points for S intracarbon to operationalize its strategy and re‐establish bargaining with multinational employers.