Applauded ‘nightingales’ voicing discontent. Exploring labour unrest in health and social care in Europe before and since the COVID-19 pandemic

Vandaele, Kurt

doi:10.1177/10242589211031103

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“…Trade unions have fought alongside platform workers and won important court cases to have platform workers reclassified as employees so that platform enterprises assume responsibility for the protections afforded to these workers by labour law (Vandaele 2018). In December 2021, the Supreme Court in India agreed to hear a petition filed by one union representing 20,000 home delivery workers, which called for social security benefits to be extended to workers of app-based platforms (Chaturvedi 2021).…”

Section: Employers' Organizations and Trade Unions: Restructuring And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dialogue report 2022

Bober¹,

Manrique²,

Hayter³

et al. 2022

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Examines the role of collective bargaining in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on employment and earnings, helping to cushion inequality while reinforcing the resilience of enterprises and labour markets. based on the analysis of national legislation in 125 countries, the gathering of data on the regulatory coverage of collective agreements in 98 countries, and examination of the content of 512 collective agreements, supplemented by in-depth country studies and interviews with key informants in 21 countries across different regions and income levels, surveys of trade unions and employers’ organizations, and data from secondary sources.

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Section: Employers' Organizations and Trade Unions: Restructuring And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dialogue report 2022

Bober¹,

Manrique²,

Hayter³

et al. 2022

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“…Protecting them became a top priority for governments in the different waves experienced during 2020. However, this was not always free from tensions (Vandaele 2021). In all countries, claims were made regarding understaffing, resulting from the implementation of cuts in public health systems during or following the Great Recession that had not been fully overcome.…”

Section: Healthcare Workersmentioning

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Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic

Molina¹,

Pedersini²

2022

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This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries. The paper provides an overview of government and social partner responses. In describing responses, the main goal of this paper is to identify the dimensions that can help explain the variety of responses, but also their commonalities. The paper also aims at understanding the factors that may have promoted the activation of social dialogue over economic and social policies and broaden the role of collective bargaining and industrial relations, as opposed to unilateral interventions designed by national governments. The paper lays out an analytical framework based on the COVID impact in each country, national industrial relations institutions and the nature of the government in office. In this general framework, we observe how national industrial relations institutions play a key role in explaining the responses in terms of the level and quality of social dialogue and the role of collective bargaining. Particularly important has been the role of strong sectoral collective bargaining institutions, allowing sectoral actors to negotiate specific responses considering the impact and the needs of the sector.

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“…While various scholars have long highlighted the important role of the state and the public sector in industrial relations (Howell, 2009;Meardi, 2014;Meardi et al, 2016), the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic re-confirmed the importance of the stateand of public employeesin the provision of public goods and services to the community. Thus, growing societal support for the prolonged public employees' struggles has contributed to partially reverse the post-crisis trend, favouring the improvement of public sector employment and pay conditions, especially in the healthcare sector (Vandaele, 2021).…”

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The new political economy of public sector wage-setting in Europe: Introduction to the special issue

Di Carlo,

Ibsen,

Molina

2023

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This special issue (SI) brings the industrial relations scholarship on the public sector into dialogue with the comparative political economy (CPE) literature on growth models/regimes. While the former has paid great attention to the public sector, in CPE the public sector has been analysed less, and mostly as subaltern to the export-sector’s actors, interests and institutions. We posit that the public sector matters for CPE in its own right for three reasons. First, the state remains today the single largest employer in virtually every European economy, providing incomes to a large segment of the middle class. Second, public employers’ wage bill – one of the largest items of governments’ current expenditures – is funded by the taxpayers. Hence, public sector wage policy is fiscal policy, ultimately pursued by public/political employers. Third, public employers are simultaneously public managers and political sovereigns acting in the shadow of hierarchy. Case-study contributions to the SI detail how these insights matter within different European growth regimes: (1) the Mediterranean demand-led growth regime (France, Italy, Spain and Portugal), (2) the German export-led growth regime, (3) the Nordic balanced growth regime (Denmark and Sweden) and (4) the FDI-led Eastern European growth regime (Czechia and Slovakia).

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Applauded ‘nightingales’ voicing discontent. Exploring labour unrest in health and social care in Europe before and since the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Social dialogue report 2022

Social dialogue report 2022

Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic

The new political economy of public sector wage-setting in Europe: Introduction to the special issue

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