"Cross-Constituency Organizing in Canadian Unions" by Linda Briskin (lbriskin@yorku.ca)
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46, 2, June 2008: 221-387

This article explores cross-constituency organizing inside three Canadian unions that
involves dual, parallel and integrated structures. It assesses these approaches with
reference to the conceptual frame of intersectional political practice. In particular,
this study highlights the institutionalization of intersectionality through
constitutional, organizational, and representational intersectionality. The paradigm of
autonomy and integration is used to identify effective mechanisms for cross-constituency
vehicles. Cross-constituency organizing is a form of coalition-building inside unions It
is a vehicle for building solidarities across identities, and advancing equity organizing
in Canadian unions that supports, at one and the same time, union revitalization and the
union equity project.