Collective bargaining in Europe 1998/1999
Description
According to the European Trade Union Institute, significant progress in the europeanisation of industrial relations was achieved in 1998/99. This is one of the findings to emerge from the recently published ETUI collective bargaining report covering that period.
The progress in question was reflected, according to the report, in the specific resolution on Towards a European system of industrial relations issued by the ETUC Congress in Helsinki in 1999 – where reference was made to framework guidelines in the field of pay and collective bargaining in Europe – and also in the collective bargaining coordination process launched by trade unions from Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium in the Dutch town of Doorn in 1998.
For the first time the ETUI collective bargaining report includes information on general economic background, pay agreements and working time developments not in western Europe alone but also in a series of central and eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. A special feature in the report deals with wage moderation in the 1990s and its impact on trade union strategies.
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