Schedule European Summer University 2022

Trade unions that are only organised in a national framework are reaching their limits due to the internationalisation of production. We will reflect on previous internationalist experiences and discuss whether, and how, this can be strengthened.

Wage earners and trade unions have been considerably weakened by the internationalisation of production and the intensified site competition. Within the European Union, the partial shift of legislation to the supranational level also poses particular challenges to actors who are only organised at the national level. Trade unions, which to this day are mainly organised within a national framework, are reaching their limits. Nevertheless, international solidarity or even international organisation proves to be difficult in practice – the national conditions of production and the traditions of industrial relations in the individual states seem to be too different. The workshop will reflect on previous internationalist experiences and discuss whether, and how, this can be strengthened.