Rule Making Through Governance Struggles: the Case of G4S

Can global unions build local power? If so, how? McCallum’s central thesis is that effective global\udunionism requires reciprocity with local actors. In Global Unions, Local Power, the author strikes\uda middle ground between the optimism about the prospects for authentic labour internationalism\udand the pessimism of its demise, by carefully investigating and dissecting the overlapping and\udcomplex mechanisms of the ‘governance struggles’ that lie at the heart of transnational unionism.\udTo illustrate his argument McCallum researches the case of a global campaign targeted at\uda private security firm called Group for Securitor (G4S)—the world’s largest employer after\udWalmart—by the Union Network International (UNI), a global union federation, and its\udrelationship with the North American trade union Service Employees International Union (SEIU).\udThe analysis is enriched by two cases studies, in South Africa and India, where private security\udguards are workers in a precarious industry, and their struggles to improve their conditions have\udbeen marked