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Transnational company policy and coordination of collective bargaining - new challenges and roles for European industry federations

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  • Torsten Müller

    (European and Global Industrial Relations Research Group at Fulda University of Applied Sciences Email: torstenxmueller@t-online.de)

  • Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

    (European and Global Industrial Relations Research Group at Fulda University of Applied Sciences Email: Hans-Wolfgang.Platzer@oe.uni-tuebingen.de)

  • Stefan Rüb

    (European and Global Industrial Relations Research Group at Fulda University of Applied Sciences Email: stefan-rueb@arcor.de)

Abstract

This article is based on a comprehensive investigation of the organization and policies of all 12 European industry federations (EIFs) since the beginning of the 1990s. The focus in the present analysis lies on the evolution of the tasks, governance capacity and functions of the EIFs in the areas of company policy and collective bargaining — areas which traditionally belong to the ‘core business’ of the national-level trade unions. The empirical analysis demonstrates that, since the early 1990s, the European industry federations have — despite a longstanding lack of resources — proven able to develop from providing forums for the exchange of information to becoming platforms for the definition of binding guidelines and minimum standards. This expansion of their functional competence, which reflects the growing willingness of their national affiliates to be drawn into and committed by transnational coordination processes, has also led to more differentiated organizational and political structures within the European federations.

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  • Torsten Müller & Hans-Wolfgang Platzer & Stefan Rüb, 2010. "Transnational company policy and coordination of collective bargaining - new challenges and roles for European industry federations," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 16(4), pages 509-524, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:16:y:2010:i:4:p:509-524
    DOI: 10.1177/1024258910383083
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    1. Anne Dufresne, 2002. "Wage Co-ordination in Europe: Roots and Routes," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/49732, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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    2. Jan Czarzasty & SÅ‚awomir Adamczyk & Barbara Surdykowska, 2020. "Looking for European solutions. Trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe striving for cross-border solidarity," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 26(3), pages 307-323, August.

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