Trade Unions in the EU Facing Global Companies: Legal Obstacles and Innovations

Marie-Ange Moreau; Maria Esther Blas-Loopez

No 27, EUI-LAW Working Papers from European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law

Abstract: In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners’ actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In the first part, this paper synthetically illustrates that, despite these positive developments, some considerable legal obstacles remain in the European Union. In contrast, the second part presents some interesting and innovative experiences. A precise evaluation of their results is still difficult to make, because they are related to emerging legal norms whose appropriation by social partners is still in its early stages.

Keywords: trade unions; European law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-10-01
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