To what extent do International Framework Agreements provide a better way for global unions to protect workers’ rights in multinational firms’?

To what extent do International Framework Agreements provide a better way for global unions to protect workers’ rights in multinational firms’?
– Need to set the context of globalisation and the increasing power of MNC to shape work and employment relations (Rubery and Grimshaw, 2003)
– Define ‘international framework agreements’ and ‘global unions’ and give some examples of the difficulties faced by trade unions in protecting worker’s rights in MNEs (Hammer, 2005).
– Provide some details on the numbers of IFAs and who has signed them and illustrate that IFAs are small in number and quite limited in their effects
– Provide examples of particular IFAs, the context in which they are signed and their relative effectiveness from an employee perspective.
– Make a clear distinction between IFAs and collective bargaining and clearly illustrate the limitations of IFAs in practice.
ØPlace IFAs in the context of other possible responses of global unions e.g. cross-national union campaigns, boycotts, strategic alliances (see Anner et al., 2006).
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