Transnational Trade Unionism and MNCs: Building New Capabilities to Reduce Inequalities

Thursday, 2 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


TH14-01
Session 1: Transnational trade unionism and capacity building: A multilevel approach
Transnational Trade Unionism and MNCs: Building New Capabilities to Reduce Inequalities

Session Organizers: Christian Levesque, HEC Montréal; Peter Fairbrother, RMIT University; Marc-Antonin Hennebert, HEC Montreal

Participants:
Solving the Double Coordination Problem: How Shared Strategic Outlooks and Union Capacities Help Unions Exercise Power on the International Scale
Marissa Brookes, University of California
Unions in Struggle: Capacities in Relation to Port Terminal Mncs
Peter Fairbrother, RMIT University
What Can We Learn from a New Generation of Multi-Level Union Campaigns?
Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal
‘New Forms of Transnational Union Coordination and Action: The Ituc's New Approach to Campaigning'
Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Birkbeck, University of London

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH14-02
Session 2: Transnational unionism: Bridging the North and the South to increase worker’s power
Transnational Trade Unionism and MNCs: Building New Capabilities to Reduce Inequalities

Session Organizers: Christian Levesque, HEC Montréal; Peter Fairbrother, RMIT University; Marc-Antonin Hennebert, HEC Montreal

Participants:
Building New Capabilities at the Local Level through Transnational Unionism: Evidence from the Case of Carrefour in Colombia
Christian Levesque, HEC Montréal; Marc-Antonin Hennebert, HEC Montreal; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal
Union Representation in the ‘Socially Responsible' Multinational: Ikea Retail in Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the USA
John Logan, San Francisco State University; Tony Royle, U of Bradford
Transnational Trade Unionism in Action: How Unions Use National Institutions to Influence Multinational Corporations
Marissa Brookes, University of California

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


TH14-03
Session 3: Transnational unionism in Europe: Building new capabilities to reduce inequalities
Transnational Trade Unionism and MNCs: Building New Capabilities to Reduce Inequalities

Session Organizers: Christian Levesque, HEC Montréal; Peter Fairbrother, RMIT University; Marc-Antonin Hennebert, HEC Montreal

Participants:
Flexibility, Security and Workplace Inequality in Multinationals: The Case for Extending European Framework Agreements
Valeria Pulignano, KU Leuven - CESO
Transnational Union Organizing in a Regional Labour Market: The Baltic Organising Academy and Finnish-Estonian Union Cooperation
Kairit Kall, University of Jyväskylä; Laura Mankki, University of Jyväskylä; Markku Sippola, University of Jyväskylä; Nathan Lillie, University of Jyväskylä
European Works Councils at 20 – a Critical Review of the Academic Literature
Deborah Hann, Cardiff University; Marco Hauptmeier, Cardiff University
Trade Unionism, MNCs and Industrial Organization: A Comparison of European and Asian Experiences
Patricia A. Nelson, Stockholm School of Economics