Still a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry
Still a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry
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仍然是协调模型吗？
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10.1177/001979390906300101
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2009
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通讯作者：
Virginia Doellgast
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作者：
Virginia Doellgast
本文探讨了德国电信业在20世纪90年代后期市场自由化后集体谈判和雇主战略的最新变化。德国独特的共同决策和职业培训机构鼓励大公司在技术人员和呼叫中心工作场所采用依赖高水平工人技能和自由裁量权的雇用制度。然而，组织结构调整正在破坏这些成果，因为公司利用外包和设立子公司来逃避或削弱公司一级的集体协议。这些趋势大大削弱了工会，并进一步破坏了协调的谈判结构。调查结果是基于2003年至2007年对德国电信及其主要竞争对手的工会和工作理事会代表、经理和员工的采访，以及对公司文件和行业报告的二次分析。
This paper examines recent changes in collective bargaining and employer strategies in the German telecommunications industry following market liberalization in the late 1990s. Germany's distinctive co-determination and vocational training institutions encouraged large firms to adopt employment systems in technician and call center workplaces that relied on high levels of worker skill and discretion. However, organizational restructuring is undermining these gains, as firms use outsourcing and the creation of subsidiaries to escape or weaken company-level collective agreements. These trends have substantially weakened unions and contributed to the further disorganization of coordinated bargaining structures. Findings are based on interviews with union and works council representatives, managers, and employees at Deutsche Telekom and its major competitors conducted between 2003 and 2007, as well as secondary analysis of company documents and industry reports.