Spanish trade unions against labour market reforms: strategic choices and outcomes

Pablo del Rio Loira and Menno Fenger
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Pablo del Rio Loira: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Menno Fenger: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2019, vol. 25, issue 4, 421-435

Abstract: Trade unions are considered to be key political actors in the formation of welfare states. Their importance for the current fate of welfare states, however, has been disputed within academia. Aiming to contribute to this vast body of literature, this article analyses the participation of Spanish trade unions in labour market reforms since the restitution of democracy in Spain. The article analyses the strategic choices open to trade unions, particularly the choice of calling for mobilisation, and why unions make the choices that they do. Mobilisation in the form of a general strike constitutes unions’ last and most extreme resort for confronting the government. We also explain the context in which such mobilisations are able to prevent retrenchment measures attempted by the government.

Keywords: Trade unions; mobilisations; strategic choices; labour market reforms; retrenchment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258918818267

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