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Pacts for employment and competitiveness – an opportunity to reflect on the role and practice of collective bargaining

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    (Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick, UK. This article draws on two research projects for its material: the investigation into employment pacts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the study of ‘Emerging Boundaries of European Collective Bargaining at Sector and Enterprise Levels’ funded under the UK Economic and Social Science Research Council's ‘One Europe or Several?’ programme. Special thanks are due to Hubert Krieger and Paul Marginson, both of who have contributed considerably to the article's ideas, as well as being, respectively, the inspiration behind the two projects.)

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Pacts for employment and competitiveness (PECs) raise understandable concerns about the potential for ‘concession bargaining', ‘regime competition’ and the fragmentation of the inclusive collective bargaining structures characteristic of most European national systems. PECs are not themselves the source of the problem, however, and are unlikely to be a temporary phenomenon. Rather PECs are a manifestation of wider changes taking place in the process and structure of collective bargaining, reflecting the more complex role collective bargaining is playing in the light of ‘globalisation’ in general and ‘Europeanisation’ in particular. These developments are also bringing about a measure of convergence across EU countries in the form of substantial changes in the levels, scope, form and output of collective bargaining, all of which are being encouraged by the emerging multi-level system of industrial relations in Europe.

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  • Keith Sisson, 2001. "Pacts for employment and competitiveness – an opportunity to reflect on the role and practice of collective bargaining," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 7(4), pages 600-615, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:7:y:2001:i:4:p:600-615
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890100700404
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    3. Keith Sisson & Paul Marginson, 2001. "'Soft Regulation' - Travesty of the Real Thing or New Dimension?," One Europe or Several? Working Papers 32, One-Europe Programme.
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