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Organizing German automobile plants in the USA: An assessment of the United Auto Workers' efforts to organize German-owned automobile plants

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Over the past three decades, all three German automobile producers (BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen) have built production facilities in the United States. Despite the similarities among the firms when it comes to collective employee representation in Germany, the employee-relations practices of each firm differ markedly in the United States. In all three cases, however, the UAW failed to achieve union recognition. The Volkswagen case, in particular, illustrates the considerable challenge involved in trying to reconcile two quite different national systems of collective employee representation.

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  • Silvia, Stephen J., 2016. "Organizing German automobile plants in the USA: An assessment of the United Auto Workers' efforts to organize German-owned automobile plants," Study / edition der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, volume 127, number 349.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:hbsedi:349
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    1. Chris Brewster & Marc Goergen & Geoffrey Wood, 2011. "Corporate Governance Systems and Industrial Relations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adrian Wilkinson & Keith Townsend (ed.), The Future of Employment Relations, chapter 13, pages 238-252, Palgrave Macmillan.
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      Keywords

      Multinational Firms; Labor-Management Relations; Corporate Culture;
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      JEL classification:

      • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
      • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
      • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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