0 a system in which both managers and workers are involved in making important decisions for a company: --
I could find many other holes in it, including the absence of any reference to co-determination.
However, it remains to be seen how well this new form of co-determination at national level will operate.
We could, of course, have shown greater courage for co-determination and not for reduced participation, precisely because we were not under pressure of time.
Unanimity still applies in areas vital to competitiveness, in particular social security, co-determination in the boardroom and dismissal rights.
We should maintain the arrangements whereby there is co-determination and joint control of the training arrangements and medical facilities.
Now that article 157 is subject to co-determination, that potential will be more easily realised.
Let us aim for co-determination, but let us introduce it at a lower level and carry both sides of industry with us.
All the boards have an outstanding record of co-determination as between themselves, the employers and the trade unions.
