Global Solidarity on the Docks.

An example of a "best case scenario" for global logistics worker organizing is the International Dockworkers Council (IDC), an independent global union organization of workplace-level dockworker union activists that I have researched for the past decade. Keywords: global unions; dockworkers; logistics; structural power; internationalism EN global unions dockworkers logistics structural power internationalism 50 58 9 01/04/22 20220101 NES 220101 Graph: The Ever Given, part of the Evergreen fleet, in the Suez Canal.Herry Lawford, Flickr In March 2021, the massive container ship Ever Given, part of the Evergreen fleet, carrying eighteen thousand containers, ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days.[4] The ship's cargo, valued at $1 billion,[5] included everything from apparel to electronics to furniture and agricultural commodities. Dockworker unions in both countries have become iconic symbols for the trade union movement and the left more broadly of what is possible when workers organize, and they have played a leading role in social and political movements in their countries since that time. Lessons on Intraorganizational Practices from the IDC In addition to providing lessons for the development of logistics worker-organizing strategy, the IDC's organizational model provides lessons on how to bring logistics workers together across disparate worksites - and even countries. [Extracted from the article]