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This title was first published in 2002: Negotiated Europeanisation
is the final study in a three-volume series on European Works
Councils by an international research group. The first two studies
have already been published by Ashgate. The current study is rooted
in an analysis of the establishment of EWCs under Articles 5 and 6
of the 1994 EWC Directive. This is now a mandatory procedure and
completes the development of EWCs from bodies set up purely by
voluntary negotiation to bodies set up within a binding statutory
procedure. The study is based on cases of five (named) major
European firms in a variety of industrial sectors. As well as a
detailed consideration of how negotiations using the mandatory
procedure took place, there are more general reflections on the
'quality' of the actors involved, the negotiating process and the
outcomes. As well as their analytical value, these observations
offer a number of practical pointers on the establishment of
information and consultation arrangements internationally. The
study also asks why EWCs have been set up in only one third of
eligible companies and why the pace of establishing new EWCs slowed
after the mandatory procedure came into force in September 1996.
This part of the study is based upon a pan-European questionnaire
and offers the first empirical findings on this issue. European
Works Councils exemplify a new mode of regulation at the European
level, not only within industrial relations but in the field of
European integration more widely conceived - Europe as a
multi-level system of governance within a framework of devolved
subsidiarity. This study is of both academic and practical
interest, particularly in view of the continuing process of change
in this area, exemplified in new Directives on the European Company
Statute and information and consultation at national level.
This title was first published in 2001. The emergence of the
European Works Councils (EWCs) is one of the most important
developments in international industrial relations and the most
significant intervention by the European Union in the industrial
relations field. This volume is the second of three studies into
the establishment and operation of EWCs conducted by the authors.
It examines the development of a typology of EWCs and explores the
prospects for establishing networks of EWCs, using case studies
drawn from the food, banking and insurance sectors. The book is an
informative text for researchers, academics and practitioners who
wish to locate empirical material and practical experience in a
developmental and theoretical framework.
The service sector has not always received the attention it merits
in industrial relations research when set against its enormous
economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly
diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged
behind long-standing processes of transnationalization undertaken
by service sector companies and the challenges these pose for
policy and practice in the field of employment relations. This
study by Stefan Rub and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer represents a
pioneering effort to remedy this gap. Through six named company
case studies, Rub and Platzer explore the scope and background for
transnational employee relations conflicts and the mechanisms that
have emerged to resolve and anticipate these, highlighting the
complex relationships between employee representatives, management
and trade unions. The choice of case studies aims to capture a
broad range of service sector employment, in terms of both working
conditions and employment relations arrangements. As well as
covering a number of key sectors, the choice of home countries of
the selected firms also aims to capture the impact of national
influences for the main industrial relations models in Europe.
Overall, the study offers insights into the complexities of the
Europeanization of company-level industrial relations in a dynamic
field now also confronted by the convulsions unleashed by the
Eurozone crisis.
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