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Transnational Company Bargaining and the Europeanization of Industrial Relations

Prospects for a Negotiated Order

by Stephan Rüb (Author) Hans-Wolfgang Platzer (Author) Torsten Müller (Author)
©2013 Edited Collection XX, 316 Pages

Summary

Over the past decade, European company-level employment regulation has emerged: European Works Councils (EWCs) and trade unions have begun to negotiate company-level collective agreements which have a far-reaching impact across borders on issues as diverse as company restructuring, health and safety, and profit-sharing. The negotiating parties have thus begun to fill the gap left by low levels of regulation and little formal structure, necessarily leading them to also bargain about the negotiating process itself.
This study is the first to provide a detailed analysis of the process of negotiating European company-level agreements based on ten company case studies as well as a quantitative study of European company-level bargaining in the metalworking industry. The study provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging order of European company-level industrial relations and the strategies and assessments of the key actors, with a particular focus on the emergence of a new and dynamic interplay between EWCs and trade unions at the national and European levels. The findings are also placed in the wider context of political science research into European integration and thus contribute to European governance debates that go beyond the employment and industrial relations field.

Details

Pages
XX, 316
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035303551
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034309097
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0355-1
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (December)
Keywords
employment regulation health profit-sharing
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. XX, 316 pp., 18 fig., 7 tables

Biographical notes

Stephan Rüb (Author) Hans-Wolfgang Platzer (Author) Torsten Müller (Author)

Stefan Rüb works as a senior researcher at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany. He is a founding member of the European and Global Industrial Relations Research Group at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda. Hans-Wolfgang Platzer has been Professor in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda since 1992. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, ad personam and is Director of the European and Global Industrial Relations Research Group at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda. Torsten Müller works at the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels as a senior researcher in the field of collective bargaining. He is also an associate member of the European and Global Industrial Relations research group at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda. He formerly worked as a research fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick.

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