WIEGO Research – Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy: Street Vendors
Collective Bargaining is usually understood as taking place between an employer(s) and employees. However, workers in the informal economy, including own account workers, are engaged in many different forms of collective negotiation with counterparts that are not employers. This paper builds on recent work done by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) on collective bargaining in different sectors of the informal economy and by StreetNet International on collective bargaining in the street vending sector. Specifically, it explores the range of collective bargaining arrangements and experiences of street vendors in different countries, many of whom are affiliates of StreetNet International.
The action-research is a work in progress, and the report therefore documents and analyses findings to date. The author interviewed a number of StreetNet affiliates by telephone and Skype, and slotted in some one-off interviews during field visits to countries where other StreetNet affiliates were based.
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