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"Au cours des dernières années, les accords-cadres transnationaux (ACT) conclus aux niveaux international et européen sont devenus un nouvel outilde régulation au sein des entreprises transnationales. Proposant un exposé des origines et une présentation quantitative des ACT, ainsi qu'une analysedes stratégies menées par les fédérations syndicales internationales et européennes dans la négociation de ces accords, cet article se penche sur la questionde savoir si et comment ces nouveaux outils servent l'internationalisation des relations professionnelles. L'article aboutit à la conclusion que toutun éventail de conditions spécifi ques au secteur et à l'entreprise concernés doit exister pour permettre la signature d'un ACT. Lorsque ces conditionssont réunies, les ACT confèrent aux fédérations syndicales internationales et européennes, de même qu'aux comités d'entreprise européens, unrôle reconnu dans le domaine de la régulation sociale internationale. Dans certains cas, ils ont pu être utilisés avec succès pour résoudre des confl itslocaux. Les recherches conduites par les auteurs semblent indiquer que les ACT, s'ils sont employés de manière stratégique, sont susceptibles decontribuer au développement des relations professionnelles internationales au niveau de l'entreprise, voire de faciliter les activités d'organisation dessyndicats à long terme."

" The European Union Energy Sector Directive no. 96/62 laid down that Member States were to initiate a market liberalisation process in the electricity sector. In this context Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness (PEC) represent part of a strategy enterprises are adopting in order to face the challenge of managing the changeover from near-monopoly to internationally competitive structures. The article, based on ten case studies carried out in five EU Member States, looks at the thinking underlying these pacts, the changes at the level of collective bargaining, and how the PECs are interpreted by the parties involved: not only the contents of the PECs, but also the underlying motives, the processes of negotiation and the effects of the agreements. It points to areas in which PECs have been able to contribute to generating win-win situations, but also to possible ambiguities and contradictions linked to the negotiation and implementation of such pacts. "

"Employee participation at company level is one of the core institutions of what can be called the ‘European social model', based on national regulations and regulations at EU level, such as the directives on European Works Councils (EWCs) and the Societas Europaea (SE). This process of institutionalisation coincides with fundamental changes in the current era of globalisation and transformation, which increase the importance of the company level for employee participation. We argue that this development highlights the problem of articulation within the multi-level system of employee participation. By comparing institutions of participation at national – we include the cases of France, Germany, Spain and Sweden – and at EU level we analyse whether and how these institutions create opportunities to influence company decisions by giving voice to workers' representatives. In doing so we identify good practices and, on that basis, develop policy recommendations to strengthen the articulation of employee representation at company level."

"Negli ultimi anni, gli Accordi Quadro Internazionali sono diventati un nuovo strumento di regolazione nell'ambito dei gruppi transnazionali. Alla luce di una rapida panoramica sulla nascita degli AQI e di un'analisi quantitativa di tali strumenti, nonché di un'analisi delle strategie messe in atto dalle Federazioni Sindacali Globali, l'articolo analizza il ruolo di tali nuovi strumenti per l'internazionalizzazione delle relazioni industriali e conclude che devono esistere delle condizioni specifiche inerenti alla categoria e al gruppo transnazionale."

"The increasing number of transnational agreements signed in recent years at the EU-company level suggests a form of Europeanization of industrial relations, as these agreements constitute a formal recognition of social dialogue across national borders. However, empirical results based on a multi-level research about the experiences with these agreements in the metal sector offer a more complex picture. The strategies of the actors at European, national and local levels, and more importantly the degree and type of their coordination, are crucial to understanding the processes and mechanisms which encourage or prevent the emergence of cross-national negotiations at company level. "

"This book pursues principal aims. First it describes and reviews current concerns in regard to the conditions of labour markets, production organizations, working conditions, and industrial and employment relations. Prominent among these concerns are the crisis in trade unions and in democratic labour market institutions, and the rise of what many critics regard as technocratic administrative powers in the displacement of democratic practices. Furthermore the book explores aspects of the search for socio-cultural innovation in the wide areas of work, industrial, organizational, management, and employment relations. It therefore deals with participatory democratic practices in the world of work and production, with citizenship, social cohesion, wider participation in education and training, as well as with cultural interests in identity, solidarity and non-market values. "