By Konstantinos Papadakis
This bookassesses the phenomenon of foreign framework agreements (IFAs), interpreting their implementation and influence worldwide in addition to their merchandising of ILO criteria. This volumeincludes contributions from fifteen overseas experts to provide a finished dialogue of the 80-plus IFAs that existed in July 2010.
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Data drawing on European Union (EU) research on transnational agreements show that, by March 2010, approximately 160 joint texts existed, covering more than eight million workers around the world (European Commission 2009). In terms of the ‘narrower’ definition of IFAs, however, the sector with the most negotiated agreements is the construction industry (14) and the automotive and transport equipment manufacturing industry (13), followed by postal and telecommunications services (6), temporary work services (6), chemical industries/utilities (water, gas and electricity) (5), food and lodging (5), retail (4), property services (3), and the media/culture graphical industries (3) (see the Appendix).
As written elsewhere (Hammer 2008; Rossi and Robertson, Chapter 10 in this volume), the vast majority of IFAs can be found in, using Gereffi’s typology, ‘producer-driven’ (rather than ‘buyer-driven’) global supply chains which are capital- and technology-intensive industries, such as the automotive industry (Gereffi 1999). MNEs governing these chains usually have a hierarchical, vertically integrated production structure. They are also often characterized by strong relationships between MNEs and their first-tier suppliers, by a solid workplace organization throughout the chain, and by strong home-country unions and work councils that become instrumental in the monitoring and implementation of IFAs.
She was a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Social Sciences and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University. Previously, she worked in food retailing and as an international management consultant. She holds a PhD from Cardiff University. Arianna Rossi is a technical officer with the ILO/IFC Better Work Programme in Geneva. She works on monitoring and evaluation as well as impact assessment. Before that, she was a research officer at the University of Manchester for the Capturing the Gains research network on economic and social upgrading in global production networks.