Crisis-related collective bargaining and its effects on different contractual groups of workers in German and Belgian workplaces

Nadja Doerflinger and Valeria Pulignano

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2018, vol. 39, issue 1, 131-150

Abstract: This article investigates the effects of crisis-related collective bargaining on different contractual groups of workers. Comparing four workplaces of two multinationals in Germany and Belgium in the recent economic crisis, the authors observe that Belgian unions could protect some temporary workers’ jobs and when the crisis endured, the jobs and working conditions of the permanent workforces. In contrast, temporary jobs in the German workplaces were not protected and later on, the works councils had to concede on the permanent workers’ working conditions to safeguard their jobs. This is explained by the intersection of institutional and firm-level differences which interacted to offer (or not) resources to unions to enforce protection.

Keywords: Collective bargaining; concession bargaining; crisis; segmentation; temporary workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X15609117

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