Workers interest representation and trade unions in Europe – research findings, IRES-ETUI cooperation
Description
How can trade unions today become more successful in recruiting new members and reinforce their legitimacy? Can EWCs serve to improve competences of interest representation in a cross-border dimension and, in this way, become more attractive? What impact do we see from the relationship between the autonomous power of trade unions through collective bargaining and other channels of interest representation? Can we observe a new division of tasks and changes in how these actors coordinate? How do management deal with EWCs? Does accepting them as negotiators mean that it is to the disadvantage of trade unions? How does strong workers' board-level representation relate to the substructures of interest representation? Do trade unions, at national levels as well as at European level adequately prepare their representatives ?
These will be the headlines for exchange on comparative and transnational topics between researchers and practitioners from European interest representation bodies and trade unions convened by a bilateral organization of seminars by ETUI-REHS and the French IRES institute.
Two seminars are scheduled for the period 2007/08. A small exploratory publication in a journalistic style aimed at compiling the relevant and interesting topical findings will be the visible outcome of this collaboration.
Researchers
Dr. Norbert Kluge
Senior researcher. Head of the ETUI-REHS SEEurope projectphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 08
