El papel de la negociación colectiva como herramienta de reforzamiento de las representaciones sindicales más allá de la empresa

Abstract

This paper deals with an analysis of a sample of Spanish collective bargaining agreements; namely, the article focuses on the role of agreements as tools to strengthen union representation bodies, —the so called Secciones Sindicales— beyond the framework of the enterprise. In par-ticular, the paper takes as example some specific corporate group collective agreements and sectoral agreements. The second part of this article focuses on another close issue: the possibility of setting up union delegates to intervene beyond the reach of the company. First, the paper deals with the possibility to create union delegates in corporate groups, set up and regulated by corporate group collective agreements. Second, the arti-cle deals with other possibilities concernint union delegates, such as those related with corporate groups but regulated by sectoral collective agree-ments, and, finally the possibility of union sectoral delegates —beyond the reach of corporate groups— set up by sectoral collective agreements.