“…There is evidence that CEE union delegates, especially from subsidiaries with adversarial workplace industrial relations, managed to use EWCs effectively as sources of information denied to them locally, and occasionally even as a way of alerting central management to questionable practices in the host countries (Geppert et al, 2014; Myant, 2023). However, non-union EWCs are also on the rise, in which at the end of table reserved for employee representatives one may find, instead of union delegates, council members appointed through various vague procedures, often on the spurious ground that the company is non-unionised (see Czarzasty et al, 2020; De Spiegelaere et al, 2022).…”