The case study focuses on the initiation and preparation phase of a more intensive cooperation, culminating in a formal agreement to establish a Transnational Partnership Initiative (TPI) in 2014. Although there were no organizing gains in this phase, it was crucial for building trust and mutual understanding, as well as for actively promoting a broadly-based anchoring of the TPI policy-wise in both unions. The case study’s conclusions are generally positive on this count, yet preliminary as the overall project is work in progress and its basis of support beyond the two unions (societal power) still untested.

DOwnload the full case study here (PDF)
Transnationalizing Unions: The Case of the UAW and the IG Metall
https://www.fes.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=31072&token=61f314d56a311d8b9661dc6b56cd3076f06fdc91

See also
UAW and IG Metall: supporting workers’ rights from Bavaria to Tennessee
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=44882

See also (in French)
UAW et IG Metall : défense des droits des travailleurs de la Bavière jusqu’au Tennessee
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=44861

Michael Fichter

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