A European labor union succeeded in organizing the workers at a facility in Germany that was owned and operated by a U.S.-headquartered and incorporated multinational corporation. After successfully negotiating a first contract for the German workers, the union presented the corporation’s board of directors with a demand that they recognize the union as the collective bargaining representative for all workers holding similar rank-and-file jobs worldwide.

Without trying to deal with the National Labor Relations Act, which you’ll learn about further on in this book, what are the equitable considerations that, let’s say, a world court should consider in deciding whether or not the multinational corporation ought to be required to recognize the union globally? Are there any possible advantages to the corporation in voluntarily agreeing to do so?