Shaping Global Industrial Relations: The Impact of International Framework Agreements (Advances in Labour Studies)

316 Pages·2011·4.76 MB·English

by  Konstantinos Papadakis

Shaping Global Industrial Relations
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Shaping Global Industrial Relations
The Impact of International Framework Agreements
Edited by
Konstantinos Papadakis
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Shaping global industrial relations : the impact of international
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1. International labor activities. 2. Industrial relations. I. Papadakis, Konstantinos.
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Contents
Tables, Figures and Boxes
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction and Overview
Konstantinos Papadakis
Origins and underlying expectations
Prevalence of IFAs
The rationale and overview of this volume
Overview of chapters
Overall messages
Concluding remarks: thoughts on a future research and policy agenda
Part I Cross-border Social Dialogue and Agreements: Processes and
Outcomes
1 The Impact of Transnational Company Agreements on Social Dialogue
and Industrial Relations
Isabelle Schömann
Introduction
Methodological aspects
Impact on respect for core labour standards: making trade union rights more
effective
Impact on labour–management relations in multinationals: social dialogue as
a goal
TCAs’ impact on industrial relations: a framework for collective bargaining
with multinationals?
Conclusions
2 A Qualitative Analysis of International Framework Agreements:
Implementation and Impact
Christian Welz
Implementation
The body responsible for implementation
Concrete implementation measures
Scope of application
Implementation and impact: selected company cases
Bosch
Chiquita
Leoni
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Telefónica
Securitas
Tentative impact assessment
Scope and bodies of implementation
Implementation matters
A mutual learning exercise
Conflict resolution
New governance in transnational industrial relations
3 Adopting International Framework Agreements in the Russian
Federation, South Africa and Japan: Management Motivations
Konstantinos Papadakis
Introduction
Literature review of company motivations and expectations
Coercive factors
Anticipatory factors
Civil society pressure factors
Case studies from the Russian Federation, South Africa and Japan
Lukoil
AngloGold Ashanti
Takashimaya
Summary
Conclusions
Part II Implementing International Framework Agreements on the
Ground: Case Studies
4 Going Local with Global Policies: Implementing International
Framework Agreements in Brazil and the United States
Michael Fichter and Markus Helfen
Introduction
Business restructuring and global production networks
The limits of corporate social responsibility
Implementing global social dialogue in global production networks: IFAs
Extending social dialogue beyond Europe: the challenges of implementing
IFAs in Brazil and the United States
Brazilian IFA cases: local diversity – recognized frameworks
The labour relations setting in Brazil: from restrictive corporatism to
limited democratization
Rhodia
Leoni
Mercedes
Implementing international framework agreements in the United States: a
futile exercise for unions?
The labour relations setting in the United States: freedom of association and
collective bargaining
The role of human resource management ideology
Union recognition cases: similar problems, different outcomes
Local politics without a global perspective
Eurocopter
Mercedes-Benz and Ai3
Local and global embeddedness
Lafarge
Skanska
Dannon
G4S
Conclusions: ‘Are we still in Kansas?’
5 The Impacts of International Framework Agreements: Lessons from the
Daimler case
Dimitris Stevis
Introduction
The Daimler IFA in context
Company characteristics and strategies
Labour characteristics and strategies
German industrial relations
The formulation of the Daimler IFA: negotiations and content
The World Employee Committee
The Daimler IFA
Implementation of the Daimler IFA: application and compliance
In the corporation
Among suppliers and business partners
Implementation of the Daimler IFA: enforcement and evaluation
Within the company
Along the supply chain
The trees and the forest: from good practices to global social dialogue
Participation
Content
Intensity
Into the future
6 Transnational Restructuring Agreements: General Overview and
Specific Evidence from the European Automobile Sector
Isabel da Costa and Udo Rehfeldt
Introduction
Transnational collective bargaining: definition and developments
Transnational company restructuring agreements
Transnational restructuring agreements in the automobile sector
Ford Europe
General Motors Europe
Daimler
Coordination: the EWCs, the unions and the EMF
Conclusions: the necessary transnational coordination during restructuring
7 International Framework Agreements: Do Workers Benefit in a Global
Banana Supply Chain?
Pamela K. Robinson
Introduction
International framework agreements
A global banana supply chain
An IFA: on the ground
Conclusions
8 Global Social Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility in