TY - JOUR T1 - Shaping The Future Of Industrial Relations In The EU: Ideas, Paradoxes And Drivers Of Change JF - International Labour Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Maarten Keune KW - EU KW - EU countries KW - European Union KW - labor relations KW - market economy KW - precarious employment KW - quality of working life KW - trade unionism AB -

The author argues that Europe's future industrial relations will be shaped by the resolution of three paradoxes embedded in today's labour markets, unionization dynamics, and EU policy. The first is the increasing individualization of employment relationships versus fictional “individual autonomy” and workers' growing market dependency and vulnerability. The second centres on the deterioration of job quality and precarious workers' growing need for protection versus their low unionization and the failure of unions to reach out to them despite declining membership. The third is the EU's current market-oriented stance, encouraging employment conditions ultimately conducive to a political backlash against the EU itself.

VL - 154 L2 - eng CP - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Crisis and Social Policy: The Role of Collective Agreements JF - International Labour Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glassner, Vera A1 - Maarten Keune KW - collective agreement KW - collective bargaining KW - EU countries KW - Europe KW - private sector KW - public sector KW - social policy AB -

Based on an analysis of collective agreements concluded across the EU in 2008–11, the authors examine their contributions to social policy through provisions for short-time work, training, wage moderation, and flexibilization of wage setting and working time. They highlight the distinction between the public and private sectors in this respect, contrasting the former's very limited scope for integrative bargaining in the face of mounting budget deficits and austerity with the latter's (initially) more balanced trade-offs between cost competitiveness and maintenance of employment and wages, especially in countries with coordinated bargaining systems. Elsewhere, the authors argue, the outcomes look set to deteriorate further.

VL - 151 L2 - eng CP - 4 ER -