Unions’ response to corporate restructuring in Telefónica: locked into collective bargaining?

Rodríguez‐Ruiz, Óscar

doi:10.1108/er-03-2014-0029

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“…The business model resembles the boundary-less organization identified by MacKenzie (2008) in his discussion of the privatization of an Irish telecommunications company, in which the growth of an unregulated low-paid sector relates to the separation of the provision of services (subcontractors) from the running of the network structure. In this process of restructuring, the main unions at Telefónica (the two biggest Spanish unions, CCOO and UGT) followed a ‘compensation strategy’ (Rodriguez Ruiz, 2015) consisting of granting favourable exit conditions for insiders in order to manage what were seen as inevitable redundancies. In parallel, the level of business at the company persisted and even increased due to their quasi-monopoly over the running of the network structure and the growth of the internet.…”

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Breaking Fragmentation through Mobilization: The Development of a Collective Identity during Movistar’s Contractors’ and Technicians’ Strike in Spain

López‐Andreu

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This article contributes to the debates over the development of solidarity among a fragmented workforce by discussing the case of a strike in which the technicians and contractors at Movistar in Spain were involved. The strike involved employees and self-employed workers working for different contractors. The results highlight that ‘spontaneous’ mobilizations can help to develop a collective identity in fragmented employment systems. More concretely, they show that the lack of involvement of unions at the beginning of the strike helped to generate an identity involving all workers that was not based on occupational or contractual status. However, the findings also highlight that the later involvement of independent unions, which respected the assembling of workers as a space of decision, was key to the sustainment of the collective identity. Furthermore, the results show that mobilizing can be a strong organizing tool in contexts characterized by weak institutional regulation, fragmentation and precarious working conditions.

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Breaking Fragmentation through Mobilization: The Development of a Collective Identity during Movistar’s Contractors’ and Technicians’ Strike in Spain

López‐Andreu

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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“…This point is illustrated by analysing the case of Spanish SOEs. Firstly, these companies have often occupied central positions in subcontracting networks and have operated as flagship companies in industrial concentrations in Madrid, Seville, and Cadiz (Alonso-Gil and Vazquez-Barquero 2010; Rama and Ferguson 2007;Rodríguez-Ruiz 2015). In enhancing the social capital of SOEs, this form of production organisation may have reduced the probability of opportunistic behaviour in their cooperative partnerships.…”

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Cooperative innovation and crises: Foreign subsidiaries, state-owned enterprises, and domestic private firms

García-Sánchez

Rama²

2022

Science and Public Policy

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This article studies whether foreign subsidiaries (FSs) are able to cooperate for innovation with local partners during good and harsh economic times. It also enquires as to whether these companies and different types of domestic firms displayed similar cooperative behaviour during 2004–16. The period is divided into three sub-periods (boom, downturn, and recovery), and three logit models with panel data of a representative sample of Spanish firms are proposed. The ability of FSs to cooperate for innovation is maintained throughout the business cycle. These firms are better at cooperating than are unaffiliated firms but not significantly better than domestic business groups. State-owned enterprises strongly outperform both FSs and domestic private firms during the boom, the downturn, and the recovery. Unaffiliated domestic firms manage to cooperate during the boom and the recovery but not during the downturn. Predictors of cooperative innovation vary throughout the business cycle. The results contain policy implications.

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“…Our perspective draws attention to the role of diverse players, interests and local identities taking part in micro-political games of contestation, alliance formation and negotiation in TNCs. The focus is not only on the political struggles between traditional key players in international business (headquarters and subsidiary managers, shareholders and regulators) but also on employee involvement in organizational decision-making, either through subversive strategies based on aggressive bargaining, collective action and high resistance or through co-optation, collaboration and support of organizational change (Rodríguez Ruíz, 2015). Local workforces, employee representatives and trade unions have usually been neglected in the mainstream studies on discourse creation and social norms reification in TNCs (Vaara and Tienari, 2008, 2011).…”

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We say no toLa Monroeclosure! local defiance to global restructuring in a transnational company

Köhler

Begega

2018

CPOIB

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the reaction of a local workforce to global restructuring in a transnational company (TNC), which entailed the closure of a manufacturing plant (La Monroe) in Northern Spain. The article explores the micro-political nature of the corporate decision to close the plant, the workforce reaction to relocation and the discourse legitimizing global restructuring. It also delves into the contra-hegemonic potential of labour as a main stakeholder in TNCs. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach is qualitative. The article presents a theoretically informed and analytical case study based on the literature on micro-politics and power relations in TNCs. Fieldwork is based on semi-structured interviews carried out with relevant stakeholders and other external actors to the TNC. Findings The findings substantiate the dynamic role of micro-politics within TNCs. The article presents and discusses evidence of the formation of a broad multi-level political network of resistance to a plant closure plan. Research limitations/implications More case study analysis would further support the findings in the paper and provide for a comparative approach. Originality/value The article substantiates the dynamic role of micro-politics and power relations in the reification of social norms and discourses on production relocation. It offers an empirical appraisal of the micro-political approach to global restructuring in TNCs. The article also puts labour strategies at the forefront of the analysis in corporate relocation.

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Unions’ response to corporate restructuring in Telefónica: locked into collective bargaining?

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Breaking Fragmentation through Mobilization: The Development of a Collective Identity during Movistar’s Contractors’ and Technicians’ Strike in Spain

Breaking Fragmentation through Mobilization: The Development of a Collective Identity during Movistar’s Contractors’ and Technicians’ Strike in Spain

Cooperative innovation and crises: Foreign subsidiaries, state-owned enterprises, and domestic private firms

We say no toLa Monroeclosure! local defiance to global restructuring in a transnational company

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