ABSTRACT
The special characteristics of collective bargaining involving multinational companies have been the subject of sharp controversy. An important policy question is whether collective bargaining should be conducted on an individual employer basis or on a multiemployer or association basis. The requisites for building effective local relationships are neglected in the debate on macrobargaining structures. Interchange of information and experience for mutual consideration has become extremely important to all company participants in bargaining process. The minimum to be expected from the new international labor organizations is the exchange of information and ideas about contract provisions, workplace practices, bargaining practices and objectives, dispute settlement procedures, negotiating strategies, tactics, and techniques. Although union groups generally offer the growth of multinational corporations as the explanation for their actions, close examination indicates that the factor is at least as much a rationalization as a justification. Corporations have affiliated operations in more than one country for ail sorts of reasons and in many different ways.
