Programme full

Wednesday 15 April 2015 16:00 - 17:30
PAPER SESSION 3
and ETUC in relation to the national unions and the rank-and-file. I shall examine how, apart from this 'bureauratic
internationalism', the early evolution of cross-border trade union activism has also entailed a 'nationalist
internationalism' (the use of international networks and inter- and trans-national arenas in the course of national
struggles).
The fourth section examines how EU-level cross-border collective bargaining (including multi-employer and sectoral
pattern bargaining) and alternative benchmark setting, as well as transnational social movement unionism, are
increasingly developing as autonomous forms of labour resistance to neoliberalism. My account will also examine the
limitations and strategic dilemmas of these strategies.
The final section shall summarise the main findings.
141 BSA Annual Conference 2015
Glasgow Caledonian University