This article uses the power resources approach to analyse the Global Union Federations’ (GUFs) use of the specific instances mechanism associated with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. While this mechanism has serious limitations, it has proved to be a useful tool when combined with public campaigns and the exercise of other power resources at multiple scales. This is so, we argue, because the fact that multi-national enterprises themselves operate across national boundaries creates an incentive to engage power resources at a supranational level, as well as within the countries where they, or their suppliers, are present. As this finding suggests, consideration of unions’ power resources benefits from deeper consideration of the multi-scalar and interrelated character of union action and of the role that intermediary coordinating organizations like GUFs play in supporting the exercise of power at the supranational level.

本文使用权力资源方法来分析全球工会联合会（GUF）对与OECD跨国企业准则相关的特定实例机制的使用。尽管此机制有严重的局限性，但已证明它是与公共运动和多种规模的其他电力资源结合使用时的有用工具。我们认为是这样的，因为跨国企业本身跨越国界开展经营这一事实会激励人们在超国家层面以及存在其本国或其供应商的国家内使用电力资源。正如这一发现所暗示的，