How has the status and practice of collective bargaining evolved since the end of the 1970s? What changes are noticeable in the behaviour of actors? The six countries included in this study – Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden – have original industrial relations systems....

In recent years European trade unions have launched various initiatives for closer European coordination of collective bargaining, in order to prevent downward competition on wages and working conditions within the new macroeconomic framework of European Monetary Union (EMU). This article gives...