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Numsa – IG Metall Project

This project aims to organize workers along global value chains, rejecting the division into 'core' and 'non-core' workers. Explore the imbalance of power, increasing competition, and inequality within value chains.

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Numsa – IG Metall Project

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  1. Numsa – IG Metall Project Prepared by Melanie Roy, Elias Kubeka, Carmen Ludwig and Hendrik Simon 18th and 19th April 2017

  2. Challenges Along the Value Chain

  3. Background Information on Value Chain Project Numsa- IG Metall Project: Objectives Both trade unions have decided to organize along value chains and to reject the division into ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ workers → Project between IG Metall and Numsa to organize along global value chains: Two Parts of the Project: Workshop and Research

  4. Background Information on Value Chain Project Numsa- IG Metall Project: Objectives

  5. Auto Value Chain Germany

  6. Auto Industry Germany

  7. Example 1: Supplier Seat Manufacturing to OEM 1

  8. Example 2: Contract Logistics Company in Plant of OEM 2 - Logistics Company: Particular strong dependency on OEM plant - OEM as the centre of power in the value chain → Quotes of works council members: Dependency on OEM: A: 'Customer is always right.' A: 'The OEM gets what it wants.' B: 'In the end, we are completely dependent on OEM 2.' Imbalance of Power: A: '[Counter-Power via] Strikes is possible. But only once. Then OEM 2 will simply replace your company.' (discipline and punish)

  9. Example 2: Contract Logistics Company in Plant of OEM 2 Perfection in Outsourcing: OEM 2's new company policy: Allocating logistical ‘options’ as small as possible → circumvention of the power of trade union organisation in individual companies → Increasing Competition (The Curse of 'Competitiveness') Works council member B: 'War of nerves.'

  10. Value Chains as Catalysts of Inequality Inequality Along the Value Chain: A: 'We live in a four class-society.' 1. Employees by OEM 2. Labour broker worker by OEM 3. Employee by Supplier/Contract Logistics Company 4. Labour broker worker by Supplier/Contract Logistics Company → Value Chains as catalysts of inequality Mixed experiences with solidarity among OEM's and supplier/logistics' workers in the same plant

  11. Income Differentials

  12. Counter-Strategies IG Metall Regulation Collective Framework Agreement Metal and Electrical Industry (ERA) In-house agreements on labour broking Global Framework Agreements Organising Organising campaigns targeting suppliers and new sectors (renewable energy) Shop steward Committee JIT Transnational Partnership Initiatives

  13. Auto Value Chain South Africa

  14. The Automotive Industry Value Chain in South Africa and Economic Perspective

  15. THANK YOU

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