WIBAR-2

Title: WageIndicator support for trade union bargaining in Europe -2
Duration: December 2007 - November 2008
Funded by: European Commission - Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue Program - VS/2007/0534.
Partners: University of Amsterdam/AIAS; European Trade Union Organisations: ETUC, EMF, ETF; Research centres: Ruskin College (Oxford, UK), WSI - DGB (Duesseldorf, Germany); WageIndicator Foundation
Researchers: Maarten van Klaveren, Nuria Ramos Martin, Kea Tijdens
Project management: University of Amsterdam/AIAS - Kea Tijdens

From its Social Dialogue Program the European Union has funded the WIBAR-2 project, carried out by the University of Amsterdam/AIAS, jointly with trade union organizations ETUC, EMF, WageIndicator Foundation, and with Ruskin College (UK) and WSI - DGB (Germany). WIBAR-2 runs from December 2007 to November 2008. The focus of the project is on organizing three conferences in autumn 2008. An audience of trade union officials will discuss the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on wages and working conditions, based on preparatory studies for 12 EU member states comparing affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) with domestic firms. These studies is based on data of the continuous WageIndicator web-survey. Analyses cover private industry at large, and are detailed for five industries, for the purpose of the conferences grouped into 1. metal & electronics manufacturing; 2 retail; information technology; call centres and finance; 3 transport. The project includes promoting the web-survey in France, a large and important economy currently without WageIndicator data collection. The project is a follow-up of the WIBAR project, recently carried out by the University of Amsterdam/AIAS in 2006-2007.