The increasing reliance on temporary agency
workers by large German manufacturers has changed industrial relations, reported
Hajo Holst,
Associate Professor at the University of Jena, to the transnational labour project
at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo. Large car manufacturers, for example,
have used temporary agency workers to secure short-term profits and to bypass
statutory dismissal protection. Trade unions and workers, on the other hand,
have increasingly come under pressure as a result.
Monday 28 October 2013
Friday 18 October 2013
This is just a beginning: Gezi resistance and the legitimacy crisis of the AKP government!
Last summer,
Turkey has witnessed an unprecedented social mobilisation, maybe the most
significant and intensive one in the post-1980 military coup period. Between the
28 and 30 of May, a group of environmentalists, who were camped in the Gezi
Park to prevent the destruction of the park for the re-construction of the 18th
century Ottoman Taksim Barracks, were violently evicted by the police. While
the activists were beaten and tear gassed, their tents and equipment were
burned by the officials. This sparked a massive outrage and paved the way to
the subsequent demonstrations and clashes with the police forces that lasted
for almost four months. In this guest post, Ertan Erol assesses the wider implications of this moment of social
mobilisation in Turkey.
Friday 11 October 2013
Coordinating collective wage bargaining: a way of transnational solidarity in Europe?
Roland
Erne is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in
Oslo, where he is part of the project on Globalization and the
Possibility of Transnational Actors – The Case of Trade Unions. The
purpose of his subproject
is to investigate different case studies of translational labour in order to
move to a conceptual understanding of the circumstances under which transnational
solidarity is possible. In this guest post, he reviews in this respect the book Le salaire, un enjeu pour l’euro-syndicalisme.
Histoire de la coordination des négotiations collectives nationales (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011) by Anne Dufresne.
Tuesday 8 October 2013
Transnational actors – the case of trade unions!
During the academic year 2013/2014, Prof.
Knut Kjeldstadli leads the research project Globalization and
the Possibility of Transnational Actors - The Case of Trade Unions at
the Centre for Advanced Study in
Oslo/Norway. In this guest post, he outlines the purpose of this collective research
project.
Monday 7 October 2013
What future for Social Democracy?
On 9 September 2013, a red-green alliance led by the social democratic
Labour Party lost the Norwegian general elections. Only two weeks later, the
German Social Democrats (SPD) only came a poor second with just over 25 per cent
of the votes in their country’s general elections. Even if it ends up as thefor
junior partner in a grand coalition, the clear winner was the centre-right
Christian Democratic Party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, which missed only
narrowly an absolute majority in parliament. In this post, I will assess the
general situation of social democratic parties in industrialised countries and
speculate about their potential future role.
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