The trade unions have sought European and global reinforcements in their struggle to restore labour rights. The unions have been in a long struggle to restore their right to national and sector level collective bargaining. Collective bargaining was the practice in the country, until Law 62 on Social Dialogue was passed by executive order in 2011. The law abolished national level collective bargaining and severely impeded the practice of sector level collective agreements. In May this year, trade unions introduced amendments to the 2011 law that will strengthen collective bargaining.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/romanian-unions-demand-restoration …
Focus on the amendments to Law 62 on Social Dialogue: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/articles/industrial-relations-law …
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.