Global solidarity was a central theme of IndustriALL`s executive committee, which visited Brussels from 21 to 22 May. With workers` rights under attack, trade union power organizes and builds. Global framework agreements are negotiated at global level between trade unions and a multinational. They apply the highest standards of trade union rights, health, safety and environmental practices, as well as quality of work principles in a company`s global companies, whether or not these standards exist in a single country. codes of conduct; collective bargaining; corporate social responsibility; decent work; European collective agreements; European Framework Agreement; labour standards; social dialogue; transnational company agreement. International framework agreements: a common thread in the transnational labour regulation network. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 20(4), 335-350. Sydow, J., Fichter, M., Helfen, M., Sayim, K. Z., &Stevis, D. (2014). Implementation of global framework agreements: towards a multi-organisational practical perspective. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 20(4), 489-503.

Representatives of 16 multinationals and 14 unions from around the world gathered in Berlin on 8 November for the IndustriALL Global Union conference on social responsibility and corporate industrial relations. Egels-Zandén, N., &Hyllman, P. (2007). Evaluation of strategies for negotiating workers` rights in transnational groups: the impact of codes of conduct and global agreements on democracy in the workplace. Journal of Business Ethics, 76(2), 207-223. Helfen, M. O., Schüßler, E., &Stevis, D. (2016). to transfer European labour relations practices to the United States through global framework agreements? Comparison of German and Swedish multinational companies. ILR Review, 69(3), 631-655. IndustriALL Global Union has renewed and strengthened its Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with Siemens Gamesa, a global leader in wind turbines.

Mustchin, S., &Martinez-Lucio, M. (2017). Transnational collective agreements and the development of new spaces for trade union action: the formal and informal use of international and European framework agreements in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(3), 577-601. IndustriALL Global Union affiliates in the Philippines decided, during a three-day workshop in Tanay, Rizal, from 21 to 23 May, to take new paths of union organization and membership. . . .