Oligarchy as a Trade Union Default Setting: A Structural Re-examination of Union Democracy in Turkey

İmre SİPAHİ

Makale detayları

Oligarchy as a Trade Union Default Setting: A Structural Re-examination of Union Democracy in Turkey

Yazarlar:

İmre SİPAHİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Dergi:

Journal of Social Policy Conferences 2016 Issue 71, pp.99-126

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2017

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000615830

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2548-0405

pISSN:

1304-0103

Özet:

 


From the earliest days of the labor movement, rank-and-file
members’ supposed democratic control over their trade unions has been a
constant problem due to certain sociological factors that reinforce oligarchy
in organizations, and the five-decade Turkish experience of free unionism has
proven to be no exception to this general tendency. This article first of all
discusses the basics of union democracy as a concept and clarifies the
fundamental difficulties for its consolidation. Secondly, it examines the
post-1982 Turkish context of unionism structurally and procedurally on the
issues of centralism, union organs, delegation and workplace representation,
and asserts that the union organizational structure in Turkey further
reinforces oligarchical rule, preventing the emergence of opposition and
leadership contention within large unions. It also discusses the current
structural provisions that support or hinder union democracy in a direct manner
under the Trade Unions and Collective Labor Agreements Act No. 6356 regime in
comparison to the former union laws. 

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Makale detayları

Oligarchy as a Trade Union Default Setting: A Structural Re-examination of Union Democracy in Turkey

Yazarlar: İmre SİPAHİ

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Dergi: Journal of Social Policy Conferences 2016 Issue 71, pp.99-126

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2017

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000615830

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2548-0405

pISSN: 1304-0103

Sayı

Yazarlar:

İmre SİPAHİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Dergi:

Journal of Social Policy Conferences 2016 Issue 71, pp.99-126

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2017

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000615830

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2548-0405

pISSN:

1304-0103