The transport sector as an example of sectoral social dialogue in the EU: recent developments and prospects

Keller, Berndt; Bansbach, Matthias

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“…Some progress towards social dialogue is also evident in highly internationalised industries. In transport and construction, for example, wide-ranging agreements and joint recommendations cover working time, health and safety, training and minimum labour standards are in operation (Keller and Sö rries, 1999;Keller and Bansbach, 2000). The pattern of 'arms-length' bargaining, whereby direct negotiations are rare, but widening networks of influence are established, thus appears likely to continue for the medium term.…”

Section: Trade Union Activity At European Levelmentioning

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Towards a reform agenda? European trade unions in transition

Waddington

2000

Industrial Relations Journal

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After 1945 a particular form of trade union activity and organisation was pre-eminent throughout Western Europe. Participating within stable institutions of industrial or national collective bargaining and firmly embedded within the nation state, this form of unionism secured real wage increases for its members, extended organisation throughout much of manufacturing and the public sector, and successfully lobbied for a raft of statutory individual and collective protections. Beyond the narrow sphere of bargaining, unions influenced the terms and development of welfare provision, promoted re-distributive policies and improved the level and timing of pension arrangements. The end of the long post-war boom during the late 1970s marked the onset of decline for this form of unionism. By the 1990s decline had deepened to crisis as the breadth and depth of the challenges facing unions from the pattern of economic development, shifts in political climate, and employers' policies transformed the terrain of union engagement.Accompanying the end of the long post-war boom was a greater political acceptance of a neo-liberal policy agenda as a means to compete within increasingly competitive international markets. In consequence, many of the institutions and policies that characterised regulatory regimes of the post-war period were reformed. Measures to deregulate labour markets became widespread: employment protection legislation was weakened to encourage labour market flexibility; full employment policies were abandoned in practice, if not in principle; statutory protections were removed from trade union organisation and activity; and exposure to market pressures extended by means of privatisation and cuts in government subsidies. This policy shift exposed weaknesses in trade union organisation, which trade unionists were slow to address. Furthermore, social democratic parties 'distanced' themselves from trade unions. In combination, these factors threatened trade union embeddedness within national regulatory regimes.The reform of regulatory regimes also impinged on employers' policies towards trade unions. Employers shifted the parameters of bargaining by restricting the

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Section: Trade Union Activity At European Levelmentioning

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Towards a reform agenda? European trade unions in transition

Waddington

2000

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Recent German Publications on Industrial Relations at European Level

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2001

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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Sectoral social dialogue? A quantitative analysis

Pochet

2005

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Recent studies of the sectoral social dialogue have concluded that the types of documents adopted by the sectoral social partners are undergoing a qualitative change. It appears that significant developments are underway which need to be better understood and analysed. Any such exercise poses two challenges: one quantitative, since there are no standardised data concerning texts signed, and the other qualitative, relating to the precise nature of the texts adopted. How should they be described? How should they be classified? This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis, based on a database created at the Observatoire social européen covering all 353 agreements adopted since 1978. From this analysis we can already detect certain overall trends affecting the sectoral social dialogue. ❖❖❖ Sommaire Des études récentes sur le dialogue social sectoriel ont conclu qu'un changement qualitatif dans la nature des documents adoptés par les partenaires sociaux sectoriels est en cours. Il semble qu'il se produise des évolutions notables qu'il convient de mieux appréhender, analyser et mesurer. Cette démarche comporte deux défis. Un défi quantitatif car il n'existe aucune donnée standardisée portant sur les textes signés et un défi qualitatif qui pose directement la question de la nature des textes adoptés. Comment les qualifier ? Comment les classer ? Cet article présente les résultats d'une analyse de nature quantitative, basée sur une base de données créée par l'Observatoire social européen, qui porte sur l'ensemble de 353 accords adoptés depuis 1978. De cette analyse, nous pouvons déjà dégager des dynamiques d'ensemble pour le dialogue social sectoriel. ❖❖❖

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The transport sector as an example of sectoral social dialogue in the EU: recent developments and prospects

Cited by 4 publications

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Towards a reform agenda? European trade unions in transition

Towards a reform agenda? European trade unions in transition

Recent German Publications on Industrial Relations at European Level

Sectoral social dialogue? A quantitative analysis

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