Alternative labor organizations with precarious workers: a case study from turkey

In the historical process, the fact that rebending the rights, which were acquired during the processes of organization, for capitalism to overcome the crisis, recreated precarious work. Thus the term “precarization” became a current issue and it started to be discussed. At this process, the form of labor employment, production area, working hours were bent; their legal and union rights were decreasingly exposed to change and unions gradually fell into a decline. Then, those who wouldn’t/couldn’t be organized by unions were in quest of alternatives and coming together, they started to get organized under the roof of labor organizations such as associations, forums, collectives and initiatives. Especially, their intend to execute a pro-union and denominational union is one of the main problematiques of this study. For the field search, owing to the fact that the labor organisations that have class consciousness with no anti-union characteristics are taken into consideration, alternative labor organizations are evaluated in the context of class consciousness and via in-depth interviews that are conducted with organized workers and the authorities of those organizations; the reasons that turn worker’s steps to alternative organisations, the class status of alternative organisations, and its effect on intraclass solidarity practises are examined. As a result it is identified that those organisations that once could be accepted as under union are now independent of the unions, have their distinctive organising manners and grow into such structures that can be evaluated as important tools for working class organisations.