georgephillip
Diamond Member
"Works councils — elected bodies representing all workers in a plant, both blue and white collar — are acclaimed as one of the best, most innovative features of Germany's labor relations system. They have been shown to enhance efficiency, adaptability and cooperation. By supporting the use of work sharing (agreeing to reduce everyone's hours rather than laying some people off), for example, these councils helped Germany experience less unemployment during the Great Recession and a faster, more robust recovery since then.
"For years, labor law, labor economics and labor-management researchers like us have urged experimentation with works councils in the United States. Volkswagen and the United Auto Workers are proposing to do just that at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant. This could be a watershed in American labor relations, one that rejects the outmoded adversarial doctrines that have built up in U.S. labor law and practice. And it signals management and labor support for a new model of cooperation and partnership."
It's widely believed by those on the left German labor relations prevented to sort of massive off-shoring seen in the US over the past four decades.
German Unions have voting members sitting on the boards of directors of the corporations they work for.
It could happen here...
The Volkswagen way to better labor-management relations - Los Angeles Times
"For years, labor law, labor economics and labor-management researchers like us have urged experimentation with works councils in the United States. Volkswagen and the United Auto Workers are proposing to do just that at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant. This could be a watershed in American labor relations, one that rejects the outmoded adversarial doctrines that have built up in U.S. labor law and practice. And it signals management and labor support for a new model of cooperation and partnership."
It's widely believed by those on the left German labor relations prevented to sort of massive off-shoring seen in the US over the past four decades.
German Unions have voting members sitting on the boards of directors of the corporations they work for.
It could happen here...
The Volkswagen way to better labor-management relations - Los Angeles Times