This article evaluates the role performed by BMW's European Works Council (EWC) in the recent Rover crisis. During this period of great uncertainty a picture emerges whereby contacts achieved through the EWC came to play a central role in discussions and negotiations with BMW and Rover...

In 1994 the European Works Councils Directive was adopted. It marked a major breakthrough for workers representation at the European level. Twenty years later, however, the outcome of this legal provision remains ambivalent. While around 1,000 multinationals have set up a European Works Council,...

Weiterbildung wird zunehmend nicht nur in den Kontext des lebenslangen, sondern auch des lebensweiten Lernens gestellt. Anhand von vier Unternehmensfällen untersucht diese Studie, welche Mittel Betriebsräte nutzen können, um Lifelong and Lifewide Learning im Sinne der Beschäftigten...