Anders Kjellberg
Professor emeritus
How policy can strengthen (multi-employer) collective bargaining in Europe: Sweden
Författare
Redaktör
- Stan De Spiegelaere
Summary, in Swedish
With the European minimum wage directive adopted in 2022, all European countries will be obliged to protect and promote collective bargaining. Where collective bargaining coverage is below 80 per cent, they will be obliged to draw up and implement national action plans in 2025 to increase coverage. This will be the first time in history for so many European countries to be legally obliged to think about, consider and plan concrete actions and measures to strengthen trade unions and employers’ organisations to negotiate agreements for workers.
Based on reports from 20 national experts, a new report launched by UNI Europa today, aims to support trade unions in Europe in their efforts to make the most of these national action plans by providing a detailed overview of a range of ideas on how to boost collective bargaining coverage. This report does not claim to be exhaustive or definitive, nor does it reflect the position of UNI Europa, the experts or UNI Europa affiliates. It is simply a list of ideas that might (or might not) be desirable or effective in different industrial relations contexts.
The ideas are structured around five main areas of intervention:
First, there can be no collective bargaining without strong trade unions, and there is much that public policy can do to enable and encourage union organising. First, obstacles to trade unionism could be removed and workers protected from anti-union practices. They could also encourage union membership through tax exemptions, give unions access to workers, facilities and resources for union representation, or provide direct capacity-building support to (sectoral) unions.
Based on reports from 20 national experts, a new report launched by UNI Europa today, aims to support trade unions in Europe in their efforts to make the most of these national action plans by providing a detailed overview of a range of ideas on how to boost collective bargaining coverage. This report does not claim to be exhaustive or definitive, nor does it reflect the position of UNI Europa, the experts or UNI Europa affiliates. It is simply a list of ideas that might (or might not) be desirable or effective in different industrial relations contexts.
The ideas are structured around five main areas of intervention:
First, there can be no collective bargaining without strong trade unions, and there is much that public policy can do to enable and encourage union organising. First, obstacles to trade unionism could be removed and workers protected from anti-union practices. They could also encourage union membership through tax exemptions, give unions access to workers, facilities and resources for union representation, or provide direct capacity-building support to (sectoral) unions.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2024-04-03
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
94-101
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
UNI Europa Report 2024-01
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
UNI Europa – The European Services Workers Union
Ämne
- Work Sciences
Nyckelord
- collective bargaining
- trade union
- Europe
- kollektivavtal
- täckningsgrad
- industrial relations
- policy
- Sweden
- minimilön
- minimum wage
- minimilönedirektivet
- collective bargaining
- industrial relation
- trade union
- employer
- EU
- Sweden
- UNI Europa
- minimum wage
- collective agreement coverage
- kollektivavtal
- EU directive on minimum wages
Status
Published
Projekt
- Trade Unions in Europe (27 EU countries)