Publications

Members of our team wrote the following English-language articles and booklets:

Bernhard Stelzl:
New standards for information, consultation and participation – also in Eastern Europe
Documentation of the Hamburg EWC conference in January 2012
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Bernhard Stelzl:
Different Rules of the Game
German-British EWC Conference in London
Documentation of the London conference in October 2011
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Werner Altmeyer:
Cross-border workers' representation - The European Works Council in practice
in: Thomas Blanke/Edgar Rose/Herman Voogsgeerd/Wijnand Zondag (editors), Recasting Worker Involvement? Recent trends in information, consultation and co-determination of worker representatives in a Europeanized Arena, Deventer 2009, p. 175-186    → More Informationen

Michael Whittall:
Groundbreaking European company agreement at Warema?
in: European Industrial Relations Observatory on-line (EIRO), 16th September 2009
(contains an interview with Werner Altmeyer)    → Read this article

Volker Telljohann/Isabel da Costa/Torsten Müller/Udo Rehfeldt/Reingard Zimmer:
European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches
Dublin 2009    → Download this study    → Download an abstract of this study

Werner Altmeyer/Elke Hahn:
The Agreement to Establish an European Works Council for Dubai Ports World
Case study, Hamburg 2008
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Werner Altmeyer/Bernhard Stelzl:
Germany: Between Works Constitution Act and EU Directive 2002/14
National Report as part of the project "Managing Changes in Europe: Information and Consultation Rights", Rome 2007
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Werner Altmeyer/Bernhard Stelzl:
Information and Consultation Rights in Germany: Sectoral Report and Case Studies of the Chemical Industry
National Report as part of the project "Managing Changes in Europe: Information and Consultation Rights", Rome 2007
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Werner Altmeyer/Carmen Bauer:
Guide to establish European Works Councils
With special regards to the postal-, courier- and express service sector, Hamburg 2007

Severin Schmidt/Bernhard Stelzl:
Globalization and Social Justice
The Promotion of Trade Unions in International Cooperation, Bonn 2005
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Marion Houben/Rudolf Reitter:
Tentative steps to solidarity
in: Mitbestimmung, Journal of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, English Language Edition, No. 8/2004

Werner Altmeyer:
Revision of the EWC Directive: What EWC members want
in: Mitbestimmung, Journal of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, English Language Edition, No. 8/2004, p. 61-63
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Werner Altmeyer:
European Works Councils: Work in progress
in: Mitbestimmung, Journal of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, English Language Edition, No. 8/2003, p. 14-17

Werner Altmeyer:
Corporate Governance: The clock is ticking
in: Mitbestimmung, Journal of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, English Language Edition, No. 8/2003, p. 32-35

Werner Altmeyer:
Culture change at the workplace
in: Die Mitbestimmung - the Journal of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, English Language Edition, No. 8/2000, p. 6-11


Publication in Dutch

Werner Altmeyer:
Het Duitse en het Franse model. EOR in Europa
in: EOR-Nieuws, No. 2, June 2003, p. 13-16
(EOR-Nieuws was the then EWC magazine of the Dutch trade union confederation FNV)


Publication in Italian

NN:
Democrazia economica, i sindacalisti salgono sul ponte dicomando nelle imprese Ue
Così in Germania e Romania, Conquiste del Lavoro, 4th July 2007, p. 5
(This article in the daily newspaper of the Italian trade union confederation CISL includes a report on the lecture of Werner Altmeyer at a conference in Rome)
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Publication in Spanish

Severin Schmidt/Bernhard Stelzl:
Globalización y Justicia Social
La promoción de los sindicatos en la cooperación internacional, Bonn 2005
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Most of our articles have been published in German. To see a full list please go to the German publications page. Some articles are available in French at our French publications page.