industriAll European trade union: Over 20 years of working with European Works Councils
本文基于industriAll欧洲工会20多年协助欧洲劳资委员会(EWCs)的实践经验,分析了EWC的人口统计特征、工人代表机制,评估了修订后的EWC指令,并介绍了支持工业部门EWC的政策工具。
industriAll Europe, and its predecessor European Trade Union Federations in the manufacturing, mining and energy sectors, has played a key role in the formation and development of European Works Councils (EWCs) since the inception of pioneer transnational information and consultation bodies in the 1990s. Some 560 EWCs now operate under its remit, accounting for half the total currently functioning. To date, only fragmentary accounts exist of its over 20 years of practical and political experience in assisting EWCs. This article thus provides a unique insight. We examine the demographics of these EWCs and discuss how industriAll Europe handles European worker representation, provide a critical assessment of the Recast EWC Directive and outline the broad range of instruments and policies developed over time to guide and support EWCs in industrial sectors.