„Was man nicht kennt, kann man nicht regeln“ Betriebsvereinbarungen als Instrument der arbeitspolitischen Regulierung von Industrie 4.0 und Digitalisierung

Ingo Matuschek and Frank Kleemann

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2018, vol. 71, issue 3, 227-234

Abstract: Technological and organisational changes in the contemporary working world are shaped by processes of digitalisation and the introduction of components of Industry 4.0. Its consequences for work and manufacturing processes pose challenges for the representation of interests at the plant level. Labour-management contracts are a powerful instrument for works councils if it comes to mediating interests in processes of rationalisation. However, both technological and organisational characteristics of digitalisation make it difficult to make use of this instrument. Based on interviews with works-council members conducted as part of case studies on the introduction of Industry 4.0 applications, the article identifies typical problematic constellations for the agency of works councils in the face of ongoing processes of digitalisation, and discusses necessary learning processes (of trade unions) in a yet unclear field of action.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2018-3-227

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