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The changing union and bargaining landscape: union concentration and collective bargaining trends
Author(s) -
Ebbinghaus Bernhard
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2004.00334.x
Subject(s) - merge (version control) , collective bargaining , wage , moderation , human settlement , economics , wage bargaining , labour economics , bargaining power , geography , microeconomics , psychology , social psychology , archaeology , computer science , information retrieval
Unions in Western Europe have tended to merge in larger organisations, straddling across traditional bargaining demarcations. Despite the trend towards union concentration, cross‐national differences remain in the degree of fragmentation and the balance across private and public sectors. In the past years, wage moderation was common to nearly all bargaining systems, partly as a result of coordinated incomes policies or pattern‐setting wage settlements. Tripartite concertation has proven more difficult because of increased dissatisfaction with modest pay increases and insufficient employment effects.