Abstract:
The European Work Council is a transnational actor which represents the workers in
European firms. The paper identifies the difficulties and obstacles which limits the
powers of EWC (legitimacy in question, content of constitutive agreement, link with
national bodies, transnational coordination with European trade union). But the EWC
has also capabilities to improve the workers’ action inside the restructuring process:
action with European trade union, judiacy action, transmission of pertinent information
through the group, action with European authorities. The EWC is also a place for
mobilizing workers in the European group. Its facilitates transnational collective
bargaining (International framework agreement). The EWC has a capacity to be a
restructurings’ central actor
