I‑ The Union Response - Limitations
•Amount of authority a national union can give up depends on how much control it has over work group behavior
•Where national confederations exert strong control over affiliates, the nationals may not be able to cede authority to multinational union organizations
•Some problems also arise from inter‑union conflicts
The Union Response – Limitations
Union leaders reject idea of delegating decision‑making authority to international federations

Amount of authority a national union can give up depends on how much control it has over work group behavior
e.g. in Britain very little

Where national confederations exert strong control over affiliates, the nationals may not be able to cede authority to multinational union organizations
e.g. Sweden or France

Some problems also arise from inter‑union conflicts
e.g. the most important ITS, the IMF, hampered in Europe by its exclusion of French and Italian Communist‑led metal unions