Tuesday, December 14, 2004
[IWS] FES: TRADE UNIONS & TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES-NESTLE Example [2004]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)
Development of the global trade union network within the Nestlé corporation : can trade unions square up the power of transnational companies? / Stefan Rüb. - Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Division for Internat. Development Cooperation, Global Trade Union Program, 2004. - 46 S.. -
Dt. Ausg. u.d.T.: Die Entwicklung des globalen Gewerkschaftsnetzwerks im Nestlé-Konzern. - Span. Ausg. u.d.T.: Desarrollo de la red sindical global en la compañia Nestlé. - Electronic ed.: Bonn : FES, 2004
ISBN 3-89892-323-1
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/02565.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]
[excerpt]
When setting up global company trade union networks, the Global
Union Federations cannot rely on any political / legal safeguards akin
to those created within the European Union by the EU directive on the
establishment of European Works Councils; instead, they are left to
their own devices. Meanwhile their resources are sufficient at best to
foster trade union networking within companies in a highly pragmatic,
unsystematic fashion.
The IUF2 trade union network within the Nestlé corporation, described
in more detail below, is an exception on account of its relatively high
and sustained level of activity; it is underpinned on the one hand by
the commitment of the IUF, which has chosen Nestlé as a focus of its
company activities, and on the other by financial support from the
Norwegian trade union confederation LO (Landsorganisasjonen i
Norge) and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), since such
extensive network activities can - and could - only be achieved by
these means.
It is possible to identify five phases in the development of the global
IUF network within the Nestlé corporation:
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)
Development of the global trade union network within the Nestlé corporation : can trade unions square up the power of transnational companies? / Stefan Rüb. - Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Division for Internat. Development Cooperation, Global Trade Union Program, 2004. - 46 S.. -
Dt. Ausg. u.d.T.: Die Entwicklung des globalen Gewerkschaftsnetzwerks im Nestlé-Konzern. - Span. Ausg. u.d.T.: Desarrollo de la red sindical global en la compañia Nestlé. - Electronic ed.: Bonn : FES, 2004
ISBN 3-89892-323-1
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/02565.pdf
[full-text, 46 pages]
[excerpt]
When setting up global company trade union networks, the Global
Union Federations cannot rely on any political / legal safeguards akin
to those created within the European Union by the EU directive on the
establishment of European Works Councils; instead, they are left to
their own devices. Meanwhile their resources are sufficient at best to
foster trade union networking within companies in a highly pragmatic,
unsystematic fashion.
The IUF2 trade union network within the Nestlé corporation, described
in more detail below, is an exception on account of its relatively high
and sustained level of activity; it is underpinned on the one hand by
the commitment of the IUF, which has chosen Nestlé as a focus of its
company activities, and on the other by financial support from the
Norwegian trade union confederation LO (Landsorganisasjonen i
Norge) and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), since such
extensive network activities can - and could - only be achieved by
these means.
It is possible to identify five phases in the development of the global
IUF network within the Nestlé corporation:
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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