and fragmentation of collective bargaining as well - and more fundamentally - to a significant change in power relations …

labour union bargaining power and changing collective bargaining strategies have contributed to this result. It is therefore … decentralisation of collective bargaining are deeply misguided and have to be replaced by an alternative wage policy in Europe as part …

Since the mid-1990s the German system of collective bargaining with its traditional dominance of sector …-level agreements has been faced by a process of creeping erosion. While the bargaining coverage has shown a steady decline, a far …-reaching decentralisation has increasingly undermined the system of multi-employer bargaining. Compared with other European countries, the …