Implementation of Global Framework Agreements

Jörg Sydow, Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen, Kadire Zeynep Sayim and Dimitris Stevis
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Jörg Sydow: School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Michael Fichter: Global Labour University, Berlin, Germany
Markus Helfen: School of Business & Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Kadire Zeynep Sayim: Hotelschool the Hague, the Hague, the Netherlands
Dimitris Stevis: Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USA

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2014, vol. 20, issue 4, 489-503

Abstract: Over the past decade Global Union Federations have signed an increasing number of Global Framework Agreements, most of which – over 80 per cent – have been with European-based Transnational Corporations. But while Global Framework Agreements are slowly, but continually, increasing in numbers, the results of our empirical research reveal extensive deficits in their implementation. This article begins with a review of these implementation problems and challenges. Drawing on two exemplary case studies, we introduce our multi-organizational practice perspective to illuminate how the contents of Global Framework Agreements as negotiated are linked to implementation, conflict monitoring and resolution procedures. We conclude that there is a need for a systematic and integrated implementation procedure as a means of dealing with the complexity of the Global Framework Agreement process. Our proposal is built on three sets of practices – information dissemination and communication; training programmes; and operational measures – and encompasses both unilateral and joint policies and actions pursued by Global Union Federations and the management of Transnational Corporations.

Keywords: Global Framework Agreements; social dialogue; implementation; global union federation; transnational corporation; international labour standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258914546270

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