The trade union response to the European economic governance regime. Transnational mobilization and wage coordination

Anne Dufresne
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Anne Dufresne: Researcher, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2015, vol. 21, issue 2, 141-156

Abstract: Since 2010 European economic governance has not only had an impact on the framework for collective bargaining but also, subsequently, on the power and legitimacy of the unions. European unions, under attack, are seeking to react through a relaunch of their earlier European initiatives in favour of a European coordination of national collective bargaining. They are also formulating a new demand for a European minimum wage. This article argues, however, that in order to achieve these euro-demands an additional step is needed: transnational social mobilization. On the basis of the 14N case (14 November 2012 general strike), it analyses how transnational social mobilization has been increasing in pace and intensity since the onset of the crisis. The article concludes on the crucial link between transnational mobilization and wage coordination. Both constitute the first steps in the process of Euro-unionism representative functions on the road towards a genuine European collective bargaining system, refounded above the institutionalized social dialogue process.

Keywords: Wages; Euro-unionism; trade union; collective action; transnational mobilization; coordination of collective bargaining; European minimum wage; European Metalworkers’ Federation; 14N; European economic governance; social dialogue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258915573182

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