A report from the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) sets out practical strategies for reaching the 80% collective bargaining coverage threshold in the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive. While only countries below this threshold must submit national action plans, the report is relevant for all unions seeking to strengthen bargaining systems. The publication discusses different options to increase bargaining coverage such as different ways of strengthening trade unions and employers’ organisations’ capacity to act and various means of state support for sectoral collective bargaining. The later include among other things: facilitating the extension of collective agreements, enabling bargaining clauses in public procurement and extending the scope of collective agreements to excluded groups of employees such as solo self-employed and agency workers.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.