The works council is a legally regulated means of participation of the staff in a company. Establishing a works council there are a few hurdles just like in ion

The works council is a legally regulated means of participation of the staff in a company. Establishing a works council there are a few hurdles just like in ionizing. But different from unionizing there is no membership fee and the works council is regularly elected by all associates. Works council has a say in hiring. And firing decisions. And also on other business decision in the company. At times this is good and progressive, sometimes not so much (usually huge fans of combustion engines). Elected Works council members can be union members but also independent. Iirc the mode worked so well that Daimler tried to export it to an American plant but it was shut down there because “this is not how we run things here” Ah and then with VW there is the story how the works council let itself be bribed