Organizing German automobile plants in the USA: An assessment of the United Auto Workers' efforts to organize German-owned automobile plants

Bericht

Over the past three decades, all three German automobile producers (BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen) have built production facilities in the United States. Despite the similarities among the firms when it comes to collective employee representation in Germany, the employee-relations practices of each firm differ markedly in the United States. In all three cases, however, the UAW failed to achieve union recognition. The Volkswagen case, in particular, illustrates the considerable challenge involved in trying to reconcile two quite different national systems of collective employee representation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Study der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ; No. 349

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
• Subject: Multinational Firms ; Labor-Management Relations ; Corporate Culture

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Silvia, Stephen J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
• (where): Düsseldorf
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/155307
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET