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Worker participation
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This section of the website represents the conceptual component of the SEEurope project. Here the reader will find interesting contributions by researchers from all over Europe as well as the latest ideas and political concepts.
At the moment workers’ involvement in Europe is like a still unfinished jigsaw. We have all the pieces, but we do not know their different meanings or how they will fit together. Gaining influence over strategic management decisions is surely one of the most important opportunities to direct business activities in a direction that takes account of more social aspects.
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The European Social Model is still little more than an ambitious political idea, defined by the Lisbon strategy. But it does also create a framework within which employees can seek to shape workplaces in accordance with a high-road perspective. Europe will never achieve a decent share of world markets by competing on cost. Companies based in Europe can compete only on grounds of quality and social cohesion. This is at the same time their contribution to stable labour markets.
The question is how can compulsory workers’ participation exert an active impact on workers’ ideas of social Europe. We seek to support European policies based on the conviction that well developed and improved industrial relations at both national and European level are essential for shaping a strong European Social Model.
The SEEurope project aims to analyse these relations between business and the social sector of society in terms of the concrete contents and outcomes of high-level workers’ participation. It will support the introduction of benchmarks for the future of working Europe.
ARTICLES: - Workers' Involvement in Europe – A Still Unfinished Jigsaw (Norbert Kluge) (In: Henning Jorgensen et. Al. (eds) (2004) European Trade Union Yearbook 2003/2004. Brussels, 115-136)
Norbert Kluge tries to piece together elements that are normally viewed separately, forming a new basis for analysis and for coming up with political recommendations as how the pieces might be fit together in the endeavour to achieve a social Europe. He stresses his main question: Are we moving towards a “europeanisation” of industrial relations and, if so, which factors may account for this?
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- European Social Model
The article by two ETUI senior researchers Maria Jepsen and Amparo Serrano Pascual will give an idea what the European Social Model might be and in what ways it may be influenced from a workers’ point of view.
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- Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC)
Béla Galgoczi (ETUI) : Investment Strategies, Industrial Relations and Relationships between Parent Companies and Subsidiaries (Introductory notes, 5th International Conference of the Otto Brenner Foundation, May 17-19, 2004, Prague)
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