Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021

Session

1.2

16 Sept 2021, 14:15

Altana (Palazzo Strozzi)

Conveners

1.2: IR and environment

• Lorenzo Cini (Scuola Normale Superiore)

24. A just and green transition post-covid to a carbon-neutral society? union strategies and social dialogue at global level and their local implementation

Prof. Linda Clarke (University of Westminster), Dr Melahat Sahin-Dikmen (University of Westminster)

16/09/2021, 14:15

Track 2

Key to the recovery of industrial relations post-covid and the form this takes is the development of a green economy and securing a just transition to a carbon-free world. Global and European union organisations play an increasingly active role in global climate and just green transition politics. This paper addresses the range of their interventions, the challenges to developing policy...

19. The role of labour as an environmental regulator – Analysis of the environmental commitments contained in transnational framework agreements

Mrs Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster, London)

16/09/2021, 14:45

Track 2

The urgency of environmental action preceded the covid crisis but an inclusive transition to a greener society has become a key feature of recovery plans in Europe. The necessity of a green transition also concomitantly appeared as an opportunity to reframe and rethink debates around industrial relations and union identities (Thomas, Doerflinger, 2020).
In that context, this study provides a...

20. Occupational welfare and social sustainability. The union’s scope for action in protecting the environmental and public health

Olga Rubagotti (Università degli studi di Verona)

16/09/2021, 15:15

Track 2

The paper, after an analysis of the recent policies adopted by the European Commission during the pandemic with the purpose of relaunching the environmental ethic able to protect public health, wants to demonstrate how industrial relations can give an effective answer to the welfare systems’ sustainability problem. For the Italian case, the public redistributive policy in support of...