The trade unions membership dynamics and union members’ trajectories
- Ramon Alós Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball (QUIT) e Institut d’Estudis del Treball (IET) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Pere Jódar Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Pere Beneyto Universitat de València y director del Observatorio Confederal de la Afiliación y la Representación Sindical de CCOO.
- Sergi Vidal Universidad de Bremen e investigador en el Instituto de Sociología Empírica y Aplicada de la misma Universidad.
Abstract
This text presents an analysis of aggregated membership’s dynamics for Spanish trade unions, using ECVT data, as well as union memberships’ trajectories, or members’ decisions about joining the organization, permanency and responsibilities, and subsequent attrition. For the analysis of trajectories we make use of information of the records of actual memberships and the record of quitting of CCOO, and of a survey-questionnaire to a sample of leavers of the same union. This study allows us to confirm a linkage between the decision and motivations to become union member, to participate in union activities, the time of permanency, and the motives to quit the organization. We also identify five types of union members’ trajectories, indicating that, far from views that assert a monolithic structure, unions are complex organizations.Downloads
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