WIBAR 1

Title: WageIndicator support for trade union bargaining in Europe
Duration: September 2006 - August 2007
Funded by: European Commission - Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue Program - VS/2006/0178
Partners: University of Amsterdam/AIAS; European Trade Union Confederation - ETUC
Researchers: Maarten van Klaveren, Nuria Ramos Martin, Kea Tijdens, Wim Sprenger
Project management: University of Amsterdam/AIAS - Kea Tijdens

This project aimed to promote the input of cross-country comparative analyses at the level of themes and industries using the data of the WageIndicator web survey about wages, working conditions and working hours. This input was focused on the European trade union involvement in developing workplace industrial relations and Europe-wide bargaining. Central was a conference on industrial relations and bargaining, held in April 2007. The project resulted in the book "Bargaining issues in Europe: comparing countries and industries", published by the European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety -ETUI-EHRS - in Brussels in four languages: English, Spanish, Hungarian and German.

Please find below the papers which have been produced for, and presented at the conference April 18th-20th 2007 or download the conference report.

Theme and Industry reports:

• WIBAR Report No.1 Working Time
• WIBAR Report No.2 Low Pay
• WIBAR Report No.3 Training
• WIBAR Report No.4 Older Workers
• WIBAR Report No.5 Collective Bargaining Coverage
• WIBAR Report No.6 Work-related Stress
• WIBAR Report No.7 The Industry Report

Download the detailed conference program.

In addition, handouts of the following presentations are available:

• Kea Tijdens - "Explaining collective bargaining coverage across 8 EU member states"
• Maarten van Klaveren - "Low pay"
• Wim Sprenger - "Older workers"
• Wim Sprenger - "Training"
• Maarten van Klaveren - "Work-related stress"
• Kea Tijdens & Nuria Ramos Martin - "Regulation of working time"
• Paulien Osse - "The WageIndicator"

And the "ranking industries table" is also available as an overview.

Disclaimer: Sole responsibility lies with the AIAS/University of Amsterdam. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information in this particular or in any other publication or communication.