• Robert Chiaravalli, Second shift: From crisis to collaboration [movie show]

Roundtable: Vittorio De Luca, David Hollister
 

WS03. Building trust and constructive conflict management in organizations: The role of Employee representatives

Aula 3
Friday 9 September 2016, 10.30-12.00

Organisers: Patricia Elgoibar, Martin Euwema
 

• Patricia Elgoibar, The trees of trust
• Erica Romero Pender, Investing in representatives pays off
• Ana Belén García, Complex conflict behavior and quality of agreements in organizations
• Martin Euwema, Doves or hawks? Who can be trusted in conflict?

Discussants: Lourdes Munduate, Aukje Nauta
 

WS04. Trade unions under the conditions of the European crisis

Aula 27
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organisers: Heiner Dribbusch, Steffen Lehndorff, Thorsten Schulten
 

• Heiner Dribbusch, Steffen Lehndorff, Thorsten Schulten, Trade unions under the conditions of the European crisis
• Marco Cilento, European Trade Union Confederation, Discussant

Roundtable: Erik Bengtsson, Magdalena Bernaciak, Salvo Leonardi, Torsten Müller
 

WS05. Towards a meaningful social dialogue at company level

Aula 27
Friday 9 September 2016, 10.30-12.00

Organisers: Isabella Biletta, Stavroula Demetriades, Camilla Galli da Bino
 
Chair: Erika Mezger
 

• Isabella Biletta, National social partners’ organisations exploring new territories?
• Bernd Brandl, The cement of social dialogue: The pivotal role of trust for the efficacy of European industrial relations
• Volker Telljohann, Integrated strategies of worker participation and collective bargaining in the context of corporate crises

Discussant: Ida Regalia
 

WS06. Recent trends in German industrial relations

Aula Seminari Passione
Friday 9 September 2016, 10.30-12.00

Organiser: Hagen Lesch
 

• Hagen Lesch, Sandra Vogel (supported by Paula Hellmich), Working together: State intervention and social partner involvement. Germany’s response to the global and financial crisis
• Thorsten Schulten, Reinhard Bispinck, Strengthening of German collective bargaining through a better use of extension – a failed reform?

Roundtable: New contours of industrial conflict in Germany, Heiner Dribbusch, Hagen Lesch
 

WS07. Representativeness of social partners’ organisations at international, EU and national level

Aula 3
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organisers: Christian Welz, Peter Kerckhofs, Camilla Galli da Bino
 
Chair: Erika Mezger
 

• Sigried Caspar, Peter Kerckhofs, Birgit Kraemer, Representativeness at European and national level – examples from European representativeness studies and a study on different concepts of representativeness
• Camilla Galli da Bino, An overview of Eurofound’s relevant resources and information, including representativeness studies

WS08. Revisiting the Danish bargaining model – A comparative perspective

Aula 3
Thursday 8 September 2016, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

Organisers: Anna Ilsøe, Trine P. Larsen
 

• Steen E. Navrbjerg, Paul Marginson, MNCs in Denmark and the UK – Accommodating to or transforming national industrial relations?
  Trine P. Larsen, Discussant
• Soren Kaj Andersen, Sarah Kaine, Russell Lansbury, Different pathways to the decentralisation of industrial relations and their consequences: Denmark and Australia compared
  Maria da Paz Campos Lima, Discussant
• Berndt Keller, Sectoral social dialogues in professional football. Freeway or dead end towards Europeanization?
  Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Discussant
• Anders Kjellberg, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Attacks on union organizing: Reversible and irreversible changes to the Ghent-systems in Sweden and Denmark
  Søren Kaj Andersen, Discussant
• Mikkel Mailand, Danish tripartite negotiations and European social pacts: Different paths, different types
  Steen E. Navrbjerg, Discussant
• Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe, Flexibility through stability – Institutionalizing working time negotiations in Danish companies
  Mikkel Mailand, Discussant

WS09. Unions and precarious workers: Developing new forms of solidarity

Aula Seminari Passione
Thursday 8 September 2016, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

Organisers: Lisa Dorigatti, Chiara Benassi
 

• Valeria Pulignano, Andrea Signoretti, Union strategies, national institutions and the use of temporary labour in Italian and US plants
• Maria Concetta Ambra, When choices matter! Comparing strategies of Italian confederal and autonomous unions toward migrant workers in the logistic sector
• Chiara Benassi, Lisa Dorigatti, The contentious politics of agency work in Italy and Germany: Institutions, actors and strategies
• Andrea Ciarini, Lisa Dorigatti, Trade unions’ coalition building: Insights from Italy
• Guglielmo Meardi, Melanie Simms, Michael Whittall, Bianca Beccalli, Enrico Pugliese, Stefan Kerber-Clasen, Duncan Adam, Representing the losers of the crisis: A comparison of systems and strategies of vulnerable workers’ representation
• Stefano Gasparri, Between class and society. The role of ideas in union strategies in the Italian retail sector

WS10. Trade unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe in the 21th century: New approaches under changed conditions

Aula Seminari Conservatorio
Friday 9 September 2016, 10.30-12.00

Organiser: Stefania Marino
 

• Stefania Marino, Introduction
• Sylvie Contrepois, Heather Connolly, British and French trade unions efforts to integrate undocumented migrants: discourses and practices
• Miguel Martinez Lucio, Trade unions and immigration in Spain: The politics and framing of social inclusion within industrial relations
• Matteo Rinaldini, Stefania Marino, Trade unions and migrant workers in Italy
• Stefania Marino, Judith Roosblad, Rinus Penninx, Comparing and contrasting trade unions stances towards migrant workers in Europe: new approaches under changed conditions?

Discussant: Guglielmo Meardi
 

WS11. The collective organization of waste pickers: a discussion of national and international experiences

Aula Seminari Conservatorio
Thursday 8 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organisers: Diego Coletto, Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes
 

• Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes, The power of organizing in the margins of the State: A case study of a waste pickers’ association in Fortaleza, Brazil
• Diego Coletto, A revival of ancient forms of collective representation? The case of waste pickers’ associations in Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Oluranti Samuel, Organizing waste pickers in Lagos Nigeria: Problems and prospects
• Lucia Fernandez, Organizing dispersity: Lessons and challenges of waste pickers network building

Discussant: Anil Verma
 

WS12. Collective bargaining in northern Europe: Stability, under strain or transformation?

Aula 26
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organisers: Jon Erik Dølvik, Line Eldring, Paul Marginson
 

• Jon Erik Dølvik, Paul Marginson, Collective bargaining coordination under challenging conditions and shifting dynamics
• Torsten Müller, Thorsten Schulten, The role of cross-country pattern bargaining in the metalworking industry
• Line Eldring, Guglielmo Meardi, Collective bargaining and minimum wage setting in construction: The relationship between negotiated and statutory regulations
• Maarten Keune, Kristin Alsos, Agency work, collective bargaining and multilevel regulation

Discussants: Vera Glassner, Wolfgang Schröder
 

WS13. Free trade agreements: The impact on labour standards

Aula Seminari Passione
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organiser: Janice Bellace
 

• Jordi Agusti-Panareda, Labour clauses in FTAs
• Janice Bellace, Social clauses and labour rights in FTAs
• Michele Faioli, TTIP and labour clauses

Discussant: Jeffrey Vogt
 

WS14. Financial participation in Europe

Aula Seminari Conservatorio
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organiser: AIPF/IAFP – International Association for Financial Participation

Chair: Jean-Michel Content
 

• Andrew Pendleton, Employee financial participation (EFP) schemes in European enterprises
• Erik Poutsma, Ulke Veersma, EFP in the post-crisis European economy
• Gianluca Pastorelli, The PROEFP IV project: preliminary findings

Discussant: Kevin P. O’Kelly
 

WS15. Theory and practice in comparative employment relations: Reflections on international trends

Aula 11
Friday 9 September 2016, 14.00-15.30

Organisers: Russell Lansbury, Greg Bamber
 

• Greg Bamber, Introduction
• Lucio Baccaro and Valeria Pulignano, Italy
• Berndt Keller and Anja Kirsch, Germany
• Søren Kaj Andersen, Jesper Due, Jorgen Steen Madsen, Denmark
• Patrice Laroche, France
• Jeremy Waddington, United Kingdom
• Russell Lansbury, Conclusions

WS16. Monitoring and inspection of health and safety and work – trends in times of public sector job cuts and decline in worker representation

Aula 25
Saturday 10 September 2016, 10.30-12.00

Chair: Birgit Kraemer
 

• Anne Mette Odegar
• Else Underhill