Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290386 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 230-2024
Publisher: 
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), Berlin
Abstract: 
Industrial trade unions in Europe and North America often struggle to develop a coherent strategy on climate change and overcoming fossil fuel production patterns. Trade union policy in the German steel industry is an interesting example of this: the "green" restructuring is firmly in favour, as it is easily compatible with positions on maintaining production sites. However, the hydrogen technology required for this brings with it new contradictions. At the same time, the IG Metall trade union recently held a collective bargaining round on reducing working hours in the socio-ecological transformation. This working paper analyses this situation by reconstructing the fundamental structures of industrial relations, the coming hydrogen economy and working time policy.
Subjects: 
Steel
Hydrogen
Working Time Policy
Just Transition
Socio-Ecological Transformation
JEL: 
J51
J59
L50
L61
O14
Q55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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