International Framework Agreements Taking Sting Out of Transnational Collective Bargaining
Published: 2018
Author(s) Name: Paul Smit |
Author(s) Affiliation: Professor, School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resource Mgt., North West Univ., South Africa.
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Abstract
Globalization and a transnational
labor environment impact
on the employer’s ability to regulate
or manage labor from different
countries. They directly also
impact on the ability of trade
unions to conclude collective
agreements.The question is:
whether the process of concluding
International Framework
Agreements (IFAs) cannot be
used as an alternative process
for collective bargaining on
transnational level and in this
way contribute towards a more
integrative bargaining? IFAs have
created an additional collective
bargaining mechanism which can
be expanded to incorporate other
issues that form the basis of plant
level negotiations. IFAs can take
the sting or bite out of plant level
negotiations as the parties already
are in agreement on basic
principles and standards.
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