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In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 56
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In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 56
In: Industrielle Beziehungen: Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 201-222
ISSN: 1862-0035
"In recent decades Germany and Denmark have constituted survival areas for the
classical IR system in an era that has otherwise largely been characterised by the deregulation and
disorganisation of industrial relations. From the mid-1990s onwards, however, it has to varying
degrees been possible to observe erosive tendencies in these hitherto sturdy fortresses of "organised
decentralisation". It is the main thesis of this article that the dualistic German system makes
it more difficult for the German parties to adapt the bargaining system so that their overall coordination
can be preserved even though the required decentralisation is introduced. This thesis is
investigated through an extensive comparison of the drivers, contexts and outcomes of decentralisation
in Danish and German industry over the last 10-15 years. The article concludes that
the single-channel representation system and the more homogeneous composition of company
sizes in Denmark are core explanations why Denmark exhibits fewer erosive trends than Germany
and more signs of renewal in the development towards multi-level regulation." (author's abstract)
In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 195
In: Transfer: the European review of labour and research ; quarterly review of the European Trade Union Institute, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 554-558
ISSN: 1996-7284
In: Transfer: the European review of labour and research ; quarterly review of the European Trade Union Institute, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 34-61
ISSN: 1996-7284
The article discusses a) restructuring trends in Europe's public sector (in an employment relations perspective), b) the response of the trade unions to this process, and c) the overall impact of these developments on employment relations in the sector. We present an analysis emphasising the differences in the regulatory systems applied to public-sector restructuring processes in the EU Member States, arguing that there are significant variations in the development dynamics in employment relations, and, further, that these dynamics can be traced to at least three different regulatory regimes. The first regime of the three posited regimes emerged from the unique pattern of development observed in the UK's public sector, featuring large-scale privatisation schemes, the introduction of elements of competition and new forms of management. The second type of regime is evident in the Nordic countries, in the Netherlands and - albeit in modified form - in Italy, characterised by a certain measure of restructuring of the public-sector labour market, and based largely on co-operation between public-sector employers and the trade unions. The third type of regime is represented by Germany and France, with their independent regulatory systems in which centralism and sets of rules are paramount, with very few changes in the general pattern of employment relations. While identifying the significant variations listed above, we also argue that a common trend is evident in the EU Member States: a trend towards centralised decentralisation of relations on the public-sector labour market. Our study suggests that, viewed in a broad West European perspective, decentralisation - despite the many attempts to achieve it and despite its adoption, in principle at least, by politicians and the social partners - has been on a modest scale. This is clearly evident if decentralisation is considered in relation to wage-development. The tight budgetary constraints felt by West European governments may well be the single deter mining factor in what can be regarded as rather rigid control, at centralised level, of the framework for wage development in Western Europe. Admittedly, collective agreements can be nego tiated and concluded at decentralised level - but preferably within the framework determined at centralised level.
In: Politica: tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 90
In: Transfer: the European review of labour and research ; quarterly review of the European Trade Union Institute, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 323-339
ISSN: 1996-7284
The economic crisis weighed heavily on the 2010 collective bargaining rounds in the Danish and Swedish manufacturing sectors — the pattern-setting sectors in both countries. This article analyses and compares the bargaining rounds from agenda-setting to signing, pointing to the significant differences in bargaining structures, processes and output. On the whole, the crisis seems to have had little effect on the Danish bargaining system due to a strong centralization on the employer side through the Confederation of Danish Industries, union moderation and the coordination of bargaining areas by Denmark's mediation institution. Conversely, the bargaining round in Sweden puts a question-mark over the viability of the whole Swedish bargaining system. Union coordination was shattered when the white-collar unions broke ranks and concluded agreements before the LO unions. But more importantly, Teknikföretagen — the biggest employers' federation — quit the Industrial Agreement after the negotiations and, once again, Swedish social partners are being forced to readjust the procedural framework for collective bargaining.
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 22, Heft 11, S. 2295-2310
ISSN: 1466-4399