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Introduction
Economic and Industrial Democracy & 2005 (SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks and
New Delhi), Vol. 26(3): 359–382.
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X05054740
FIGURE 1
ICFTU and IUF. Both the ICFTU and the IUF consider
McDonald’s a global threat to union rights, collective bargaining
and, in the case of Europe, for works council institutions. But
strategic differences in their geographical scales of operation compli-
cate their relationship.
As early as 1953, a few years after the re-establishment (1946–8) of
the ITSs, Lorwin wrote:
. . . the ICFTU recognises the right of the Trade Secretariats to maintain their
independence, to have autonomy in their internal affairs, and to have full
jurisdiction in trade and industrial matters. The Secretariats, in turn, recognise
the ICFTU as the representative of international organisations of labor which
formulates and executes general policies. (Lorwin, 1953: 310–11)