International Framework Agreements (IFAs) represent a still small but growing and particularly interesting contribution to the global regulation of employment relations. IFAs enable global union federations (GUFs) to become actively involved in co-designing employment relations within...

Global framework agreements (GFAs) – signed and implemented by labour and management – create arenas for labour relations that are based on the Core Labour Standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO). As such, they are a step towards building a transnational arena for global...