European Union-- European industrial relations? : global challenges, national developments, and transnational dynamics / edited by Wolfgang Lecher and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer ; translated by Pete Burgess
This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, the impact of the 'Social Chapter' to the Maastricht Treaty is considered. The study also considers the likelihood of European-level collective bargaining, and what effect mandatory European Works Councils might have on existing national systems of employee representation, and offers a trilateral comparison between industrial relatio
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Published in Germany in 1994 by Bund Verlag (Cologne) under the title: Europäische Union-- europäische Arbeitsbeziehungen?