Diffusion and leveraging of transnational labour norms by the OECD

Thouvenin, Jean-Marc

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“…This article takes up this task with reference to the interaction between campaigns run by the Global Union Federations (GUFs) – the international umbrella organizations representing national unions in particular sectors – and their use of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to challenge labour abuses within global supply chains. Within the realm of responsible business practices, the OECD serves primarily as a mechanism for norm diffusion, rather than as a ‘major actor in international labour law’ (Thouvenin, 2015: 385, 389). At the same time, however, it provides one of the oldest ‘soft law’ mechanisms available to civil society organizations with a global reach (Ford et al, 2020; Ruggie and Nelson, 2015).…”

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Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines

Ford

Gillan

2021

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article uses the power resources approach to analyse the Global Union Federations’ (GUFs) use of the specific instances mechanism associated with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. While this mechanism has serious limitations, it has proved to be a useful tool when combined with public campaigns and the exercise of other power resources at multiple scales. This is so, we argue, because the fact that multi-national enterprises themselves operate across national boundaries creates an incentive to engage power resources at a supranational level, as well as within the countries where they, or their suppliers, are present. As this finding suggests, consideration of unions’ power resources benefits from deeper consideration of the multi-scalar and interrelated character of union action and of the role that intermediary coordinating organizations like GUFs play in supporting the exercise of power at the supranational level.

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Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines

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Gillan

2021

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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Human Rights Due Diligence and Labour Governance

Landau

2023

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Human rights due diligence (HRDD) has emerged as a dominant frame through which to conceptualise and operationalise responsible business conduct with respect to workers’ rights in transnational supply chains. Legislation mandating HRDD is now found in a number of European countries and is on national regulatory agendas in other regions of the world. Many scholars, practitioners, and activists are welcoming—and, indeed, actively calling for—further legalisation of the concept, believing that this will broaden and deepen respect for human rights. This book critiques HRDD as an emerging instrument of transnational labour law. Proceeding from the observation that the concept as originally articulated in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is open to multiple interpretations, the book examines contests that have taken place globally over the role and status of the concept. It also considers the implications of HRDD’s ascension for transnational labour law as a distinct field of law, scholarship, and activism. Combining insights from transnational governance and business regulation with empirical analysis, this book reveals that HRDD is not being institutionalised at either the global or national level in a way that renders it a transformative or even robust mechanism of transnational labour law. It also draws attention to the important ways in which the rise of the concept is leading to subtle shifts in the configuration of actors and institutions in transnational labour governance.

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Diffusion and leveraging of transnational labour norms by the OECD

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Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines

Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines

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