European Works Councils: Survey
This project sets out to discover what European Works Council representatives think about the institution on which they serve. Questions are asked about the role, agenda, and practices of European Works Councils, together with a series of attitudinal questions about existing practices and how they might be improved. Among the findings unearthed to date are issues of company ownership, the relations between trade unions and EWCs, the training requirements of EWC representatives and difficulties concerning the quality of inormation disclosure and consultation.
Description
To date the data have been collected through a series of interlinked surveys involving both trade unions and European Industry Federations. Nine trade unions from seven different countries have participated in the survey research, together with two of the principal European Industry Federations. The intention is now to link these data with data obtained from a series of stuctured interviews conducted within the organisations that participated in the first stage of the research.