Group Working at Volkswagen: An Issue for Negotiation between Trade Unions and Management

  • Anne Labit

Abstract

Translator’s note: In the British motor industry the terms’ supervisor’ and ‘foreman’ are used interchangeably. In this text the French word maitrise and the German Meister have been translated, variously, as ‘supervision’, ‘supervisory staff’ and ‘supervisors’.

Keywords

Trade Union Automobile Industry Employee Relation Body Plant Employee Involvement 
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© Jean-Pierre Durand, Paul Stewart and Juan José Castillo 1999

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  • Anne Labit

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