The highly unionised dual model of industrial relations no longer represents the reality of employee representation in Germany. This article explores the case of irregular workplace delegates in service sector industries where the unionised dual model of employee representation is weakly entrenched. Identifying different configurations of the difficult employee access to co‐determination in precarious services, it argues for a differentiated view of the increasingly fragmented reality of national systems of employee representation.

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Les comparaisons internationales rangent l'Allemagne parmi les pays

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In early 2006, the workers of the Electrolux AEG factory in Nuremberg went on strike against the relocation of production to eastern Europe. The 43-day strike received a huge amount of support and solidarity at regional, national and international level. In the end, the union agreed to a compromise, obtaining relatively high severance payments, but consenting to the closure of the plant. This article retraces the development of the conflict, analyses the 'resources of solidarity' and tries to evaluate its outcome in a regional and international perspective.