Friday, June 05, 2009
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES & STRATEGIC APPROACHES [5 June 2009]
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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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches [5 June 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08102.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/102/en/1/EF08102EN.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
Author: Telljohann, Volker; da Costa, Isabel; Müller, Torsten; Rehfeldt, Udo; Zimmer, Reingard
Summary: Transnational Framework Agreements are a new industrial relations instrument that encourages the recognition of social partnership across national borders and could lead to new forms of social regulation at global level. The rationale for taking the initiative to negotiate such agreements can be traced back to the effects of the globalisation of production structures and human resource strategies. This report explores the recent phenomenon of transnational agreements, including both international agreements which have a global scope of application, and European agreements which have a more regional scope. < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081021.htm > An executive summary is available
CONTENTS
Foreword v
Executive summary 1
Introduction 5
Defining IFAs 5
Content of IFAs 6
Actors and motives 7
New dynamism in European and global industrial relations 8
Research objectives and methodology 8
1 Conceptual approaches to transnational framework agreements 11
Convergence debate 11
From convergence to articulation 13
2 International collective bargaining at company level: A brief history 15
Creation of world councils 15
European route to transnational collective bargaining at company level 18
3 Content of transnational framework agreements 21
Quantitative overview 21
Main characteristics of European agreements 23
Qualitative analysis of IFAs 29
4 Current strategies of the social partners 41
Economic and political framework and social partners' perception of IFAs 41
Social partners' IFA-related strategies 45
Regional framework agreements at European level 56
Strategies of European Industry Federations 58
5 IFAs: New dynamism in European and global industrial relations? 63
IFAs in the context of advanced company-level industrial relations 64
Contribution to the internationalisation of industrial relations 70
Europeanisation of industrial relations 72
Concluding remarks 81
6 Conclusions 83
Bibliography 87
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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
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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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
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches [5 June 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08102.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/102/en/1/EF08102EN.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
Author: Telljohann, Volker; da Costa, Isabel; Müller, Torsten; Rehfeldt, Udo; Zimmer, Reingard
Summary: Transnational Framework Agreements are a new industrial relations instrument that encourages the recognition of social partnership across national borders and could lead to new forms of social regulation at global level. The rationale for taking the initiative to negotiate such agreements can be traced back to the effects of the globalisation of production structures and human resource strategies. This report explores the recent phenomenon of transnational agreements, including both international agreements which have a global scope of application, and European agreements which have a more regional scope. < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081021.htm > An executive summary is available
CONTENTS
Foreword v
Executive summary 1
Introduction 5
Defining IFAs 5
Content of IFAs 6
Actors and motives 7
New dynamism in European and global industrial relations 8
Research objectives and methodology 8
1 Conceptual approaches to transnational framework agreements 11
Convergence debate 11
From convergence to articulation 13
2 International collective bargaining at company level: A brief history 15
Creation of world councils 15
European route to transnational collective bargaining at company level 18
3 Content of transnational framework agreements 21
Quantitative overview 21
Main characteristics of European agreements 23
Qualitative analysis of IFAs 29
4 Current strategies of the social partners 41
Economic and political framework and social partners' perception of IFAs 41
Social partners' IFA-related strategies 45
Regional framework agreements at European level 56
Strategies of European Industry Federations 58
5 IFAs: New dynamism in European and global industrial relations? 63
IFAs in the context of advanced company-level industrial relations 64
Contribution to the internationalisation of industrial relations 70
Europeanisation of industrial relations 72
Concluding remarks 81
6 Conclusions 83
Bibliography 87
______________________________
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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