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022 _a0959-6801
082 _aJournals
100 _aDufresne, Anne
100 _aAles, Edoardo
245 1 0 _aTransnational collective bargaining : another (problematic) fragment of the European multi-level industrial relations system
_hJournal
260 _a
_bEuropean Journal of Industrial Relations
_c2012
300 _aJournal article
500 _a<p>European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 18 no. 2 (Jun 2012), p. 95-105</p> <p>Available in the library. See journal shelves.</p> <p>Available online.&nbsp;</p>
520 _aThis article introduces the principal issues relating to the development of transnational collective bargaining. In particular, it summarizes the background and content of the juridical study undertaken for the European Commission, the so-called Ales Report, which suggested the mechanisms for an optional legal framework for transnational company agreements. We highlight four crucial questions: first, how to define, at transnational (company) level, the competent and legitimate workers’ representatives; second, how transnational company agreements can be effectively implemented; third, what systems and/or rules are suitable for the resolution of transnational labour disputes; and fourth, how transnational company bargaining can relate to other elements of the multi-level European industrial relations system. These same questions are addressed by other articles in this special issue, and we compare the answers they give with those provided by the Ales report. The lack of any legal form of internal regulation or external coordination seems to be the main feature of the upsurge in transnational company bargaining. This is likely to increase the already high degree of complexity inherent in the European industrial relations system: its multi-level governance model is characterized by task-specific jurisdictions, many jurisdictional levels and a flexible design.
650 _aIndustrial relations
650 _aEurope
650 _aCollective bargaining
856 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680112441539
_yOpen e-book (Ruskin students only)
999 _c131843
_d131843