Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry

IF 2.9 3区 社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1177/10242589231158066
V. Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier, Dorien Frans
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This article examines union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions, comparing the German and Belgian automotive industries. The drive towards net-zero and more digital economies is manifested through the move from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric cars, engendering a reorganisation of production, work and employment among car manufacturers. We identified two strategic union response patterns. While German unions are developing proactive strategies and proposals to influence and shape the ongoing transition of the automotive industry, Belgian unions are more passive, reacting primarily to management proposals and focusing narrowly on employment and working conditions without a broader strategy on how to influence the transformation of the automotive industry. We explain the observed cross-national differences by two factors: the importance of national institutions, i.e., the varying integration of labour into management decision-making, and the role of union knowledge regimes. The latter refers to internal union organisations and structures such as research departments, research institutes and foundations tasked with providing own research and funding external research on change topics from a union perspective, publishing studies and developing programmatic agendas, and disseminating the knowledge to union members through training, workshops and conferences.
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本文通过对德国和比利时汽车工业的比较,探讨了数字化和绿色双重转型的联盟战略。从化石燃料驱动的汽车转向电动汽车,导致汽车制造商的生产、工作和就业重组,从而体现了对净零排放和更多数字经济的推动。我们确定了两种战略联盟响应模式。德国工会正在制定积极主动的战略和建议,以影响和塑造正在进行的汽车工业转型,而比利时工会则较为被动,主要对管理层的建议作出反应,狭隘地关注就业和工作条件,而没有就如何影响汽车工业转型制定更广泛的战略。我们通过两个因素来解释观察到的跨国差异:国家制度的重要性,即劳动力对管理决策的不同整合,以及工会知识制度的作用。后者指的是工会内部的组织和结构,如研究部门、研究机构和基金会,它们的任务是从工会的角度提供自己的研究并资助外部研究,就变革主题发表研究报告和制定方案议程,并通过培训、讲习班和会议向工会成员传播知识。
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Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
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