On the road to transnational cooperation? Results from a survey of European trade unions

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Series Details Vol.19, No.2, June 2013, p161–177
Publication Date June 2013
ISSN 0959-6801
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Economic globalization and political developments within the EU have put pressure upon trade unions to engage in cross-border cooperation.

The most realistic step in the foreseeable future is transnational coordination of collective bargaining, but the process is still very much in its infancy. We use a web and postal survey of a large number of European trade unions to illuminate their current practices and their preferences for the future.

The most common activity is exchange of information on collective agreements, followed by collaboration in training programmes for union representatives, and such cross-border cooperation primarily involves unions in manufacturing. Support for European collective bargaining is far from overwhelming, and unions are clearly divided on the idea of statutory minimum wages: this has rather strong support in Spain and Germany, but very little in Scandinavia.

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