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Purpose – Restructuring has assumed a significant importance across Europe due to the growing pressures of internationalisation affecting transnational capital. By drawing from two case‐studies in the public health service and the manufacturing sector in Belgium, this paper aims to present evidence of the local unions' capacity to strategically use the industrial relations institutional framework, which foresees the rights of employee representatives to make a proposal for an alternative plan to restructuring, in order to fight redundancy at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a new institutionalist approach in social science and political economy which emphasises social agency and actor capacity to influence and shape their institutional context. The research design was based on two case studies. The methodology was qualitative and comparative. Findings – There is diversity in the process of collective resistance to company restructuring, highlighting different combinations of external and internal union capabilities at the core of such diversity. However, the study also illustrates commonality regarding union strategy to manipulate the national legal framework in order to combat collective redundancy. Practical implications – The research results inform unions' practices and policy making with regard to the social process and the outcomes of company restructuring. Social implications – The paper has important social implications with regard to unions' strategies of resistance and bargaining processes in situations of company restructuring. Originality/value – The paper provides support for neo‐institutionalism as an insightful way of understanding local unions' responses to collective redundancy in Belgium.
Employee Relations: An International Journal – Emerald Publishing
Published: Oct 4, 2011
Keywords: Workplace conflict; Industrial action; Belgium; Trade unions; Organizational restructuring; Health services; Manufacturing industries; Industrial relations; Redundancy
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