740
International Labour Movement Organizations' Supranational Strategies

Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 703 (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)

Language: English

Over recent decades, labour movement organizations like the Global Union Federations have worked to identify ways to leverage their international status to address and influence the globalized nature of production and labour relations. The best known of these strategies has been the negotiation of Global Framework Agreements at headquarters level with multinational enterprises. Lesser known strategies include the use of multilateral mechanisms such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and of global certification regimes such those of the Forest Stewardship Council and Fair Trade International.

This panel focuses on the increasing use of supranational and multinational mechanisms by different organizations within the international labour movement. In particular, it examines (a) whether these organizations are changing and adapting, as organizations, as a consequence of an increasing focus on this subset of strategies; (b) the ways in which these strategies do—or do not—articulate with other elements in the international labour movement’s repertoire of action; and (c) whether these strategies result in change in a particular industry, occupation, territory or workplace.

Session Organizers:
Michele FORD, The University of Sydney, Australia and Michael GILLAN, University of Western Australia, Australia
Chair:
Dimitris STEVIS, Colorado State University, USA
Oral Presentations
740.1
Supranational Complaint Mechanisms and Global Union Campaigns
Michele FORD, The University of Sydney, Australia; Michael GILLAN, University of Western Australia, Australia
740.2
Using Global Certification Schemes: Strategic Mechanisms between Strategies of Transnational Activism and Tripartite Dialogue
Melanie KRYST, University of Marburg, Germany
740.3
Regionalizing Ilmos: The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas at 10.
Thomas COLLOMBAT, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
740.4
Building Labour Internationalism ‘from below’: Lessons from the International Dockworkers Council’s European Working Group
Caitlin FOX-HODESS, UC Berkeley, USA
740.5
European Works Councils, an Embryo for Transnational Solidarity
Stan DE SPIEGELAERE, ETUI, Belgium
740.6
From Horizontal Market Integration to Vertical Integration Effected through the Direct Surveillance of Member States. Labour Movements and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime
Roland ERNE, University College Dublin, Ireland; Sabina STAN, Dublin City University, Ireland
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