| Name of the project |
COLBAR |
| Project title |
EUROPE-wide analyses of COLlective BARgaining agreements |
| Funded by |
European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations - VS/2019/0077 |
| Duration |
1/4/2019 - 31/3/2021 |
| Aim of the project |
The overall objective of COLBAR-EUROPE is to improve knowledge about industrial relations and social dialogue, specifically about the content of Collective Agreements in Europe. lt aims to undertake research activities to enhance the collection of comparative information on collective bargaining outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries and at European level. Collective bargaining is key for wage setting and working conditions, but very little is known about what exactly is agreed. Few countries code agreements, but most countries are lacking such overviews, and databases for cross-country comparisons are absent. Since 2014 however associate partner Wagelndicator maintains a database with full text, annotated, and coded Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), using a standard coding scheme. ln BARCOM (VS/2016/0106), the Action's predecessor, 120 agreements from the commerce sector from 23 countries were successfully analysed. Social partners expressed their interest in getting for the first time ever insights into the content of Collective Agreements. COLBAR-EUROPE aims to deepen these insights by adding more than 500 agreements plus 25 Transnational Agreements to the CBA Database, now covering commerce, manufacturing, construction and public sectors for EU28 plus 5 candidate countries. Using the coded data of the agreements, the Action's reports will focus on comparisons across industries, on public versus private sector agreements, on wage setting, on trade-offs in the wider bargaining agenda, on possible convergence of agreements concluded by various daughters of the same multinational company or that are related to Transnational Agreements. The Action will also prepare reports about agreements in the Visegrad countries, ltaly, the Netherlands, and Spain. The reports will be presented at the Main Event in Amsterdam, for which bargaining negotiators from the 33 countries, social partners and other stakeholders will be invited. |
| Countries |
EU28 + 5 Associate countries - (Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey) |
| Lead partner |
University of Amsterdam/AIAS |
| Key actors |
Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava |
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National Council for Economics and Labour (C.N.E.L.), Rome |
| Associate partners |
ETUI, Brussels |
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UNI Europa, Brussels |
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WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam |
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Solidarność, Katowice; Solidarność, Gdansk |
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CCOO Servicios, Madrid |
| Newsletter |
- First 25 agreements coded for COLBAR project (07/23/2019)
- COLBAR kicks off in Visegrad region (10/17/2019)
- Mid-term COLBAR meeting in Amsterdam coming up (01/15/2020)
- COLBAR: 142 Collective Agreements Uploaded in 2020 (04/08/2020)
- COLBAR's Steady Progress: Only 96 Collective Agreements Left (07/08/2020)
- Final Stretch: Only 42 Collective Agreements Left (10/07/2020)
- Join the Final COLBAR Conference on 25 February (01/13/2021)
- COLBAR is Wrapping Up, Thank You for Participating (04/07/2021)
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| Presentations |
Besamusca_SASE_2020_presentation |
| Publications |
- Tijdens, K.G., Besamusca, J., Ceccon, D., Cetrulo, A., van Klaveren, M., Medas, G., & Szüdi, G. (2022). Comparing the Content of Collective Agreements across the European Union: Is Europe-wide Data Collection Feasible? E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, Volume 11 No. 02/2022. [EN]
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| Kick Off Meeting Amsterdam April 29/30 2019 |
190429-COLBAR-EUROPE research objectives
20190429-Ceccon - COLBAR - Kickoff - 20190429
20190329-COLBAR_Amsterdam_2019_Cnel_CL
20190429-Es-Collective bargaining in Spain. General considerations
20190429-CBAs in Poland Colbar
20190429-wike-cbas-nlPresentation kick off_CA in NL
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| Kick Off Meeting Bratislava, October 9, 2019 |
01_20191009-Colbar-Europe-Paulien-Osse |
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02_20191009-Colbar-Europe-Szudi |
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03_COLBAR presenation_martiskova |
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04_Collective_bargaining_Hungary_Bratislava_09.10 |
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05_KVSystem_2019-10-09 |
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06_COLBAR Eurofound Matthias Rasche |
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Open discussion on the current state and future needs of available comparable information on collective agreements in the Visegrad region – Moderated by Paulien Osse (WageIndicator director) |
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| Mid Term Meeting COLBAR - Zoom / Amsterdam - 26/27 March 2020 |
Agenda 26/27 March 2020, meeting. |
| Final Conference COLBAR - Zoom - 25 February 2021 |
Agenda 25 February 2021 - Comparing the bargaining agendas in manufacturing, construction, commerce, public sector across Europe |
| Video's |
1. Snapshot Colbar Project - 2. Collective Agreements in Europe, a Comparison - 3. Analysing the Collective Agreements through Machine Learning |
| Final Reports |
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| Report 1 |
One-page-one-country reports with basic descriptive data from the agreements database for 33 countries |
| Report 2 |
02-REPORT 2 Clauses and patterns within and across countries in four sectors |
| Report 3 |
03-COLBAR-EUROPE - Report 3 - Visegrad-final-20210419 |
| Report 4 |
04-Report 4 Collective bargaining in the Netherlands
04-summary-in Dutch-Collective-Bargaining-The_NetherlandsReport 4 Samenvatting Nederlands
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| Report 5 |
05-20210422-Cetrulo colbar_2021-
05-Summary-Italian-Report 5 ITALIA SINTESI_ac
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| Report 6 |
06-REPORT 6 - SPAIN -COLBAR-EUROPE
06-Summary-inSpanish-ESPAGNA Resumen del studio
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| Report 7 |
07-COLBAR-EUROPE_Report7_payscales_final |
| Report 8 |
08-REPORT 8 - wider bargaining agenda |
| Report 9 |
09-REPORT 9 Transnational agreements |
| Report 10 |
10-COLBAR-EUROPE-Report 10_Feasibility study |
| Report 11 |
11-COLBAR-EUROPE-REPORT-Conference |
| Overview of COLBAR pages in national WageIndicator websites. |
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