ABSTRACT
The chapter lays the foundation for examining the ways workers and their unions address and experience different aspects of regional governance. Regions are sites of contention between competing interests as well as places of experimentation by governments, employers, and workers. The deployment and mobilisation of workers’ capabilities and power resources can mitigate the negative consequences of experimentation. By drawing down power resources, unions may engage in experimentation in relation to regional governance; equally employers may also experiment with ways of circumscribing collective actors such as labour unions. Thus, this chapter demonstrates the circumstances in which our understandings of unions in and of regions can be further developed. Of note, each set of contributors focuses on workers, unions, and regions. They present and craft their chapters in terms of their specialist focus. The result is an engagement with an understanding of union power and regional governance, from different perspectives and in relation to a variety of settings, interactions, and experiments.
