Trade Unions and Global Governance: Summary and Conclusions

Advancing the sustainability agenda through strategic human resource management: Insights and suggestions for future research

“…This so‐called “global prisoners' dilemma” (Lempert & Nguyen, 2011) opens up fruitful pathways to game‐theoretic future research on sustainable HRM, with a focus on how to encourage cross‐national collaboration and cooperation on the sustainability agenda. Without innovative ideas and new regulatory mechanisms couched in the principles of global governance, we will likely continue to see uneven adherence to environmental protection and/or social clauses (van Roozendaal, 2020), wherein some countries make sacrifices in the name of sustainability while others offset those sacrifices by continuing to pollute the environment and exploit the labor force. In short, further research is needed on how to best coordinate sustainability across borders and the role of institutional actors and HRM, particularly in the context of MNEs.…”

International union networks and intersectionality

“…Contemporarily, global labor governance efforts in the field of labor include a large variety of attempts to enforce labor standards, such as ILO's standard setting activities, codes of conduct, social clauses, labor standards, Global Framework Agreements, labor clauses in bi-or multilateral agreements, joint codes of conduct, credit conditionality, donor support, consumer labels, socially responsible investment, international labor courts of appeal, European Workers' Council, regional attempts to transnationalize labour regulation (North-American Free Trade Organization, European Union, Mercado Comum do Cone Sul), and unilateral trade legislation (Roozendaal 2002). There are, still, new institutions of struggle, such as transnational campaigns (Ambuster 2005 qtd.…”