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Collective Bargaining in Western Europe

In: Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment

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  • Lorenzo Bordogna
  • David Winchester

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It is widely recognized that in many European countries public sector labor relations in the 1980s and 1990s have been exposed to two conflicting pressures. On the one hand, at a time of high public sector deficits and severe macro-economic constraints, national governments have sought ways to contain public expenditures, of which the wages and salaries of public service employees are one of the main components. Such constraints, of course, became even more severe after 1992 for many countries, because of the Maastricht eligibility criteria for admission to the third stage of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The provisions of the Pact on Stability and Growth, approved at the Amsterdam European Union Council of June 1997, suggest that these fiscal constraints are bound to continue.

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  • Lorenzo Bordogna & David Winchester, 2001. "Collective Bargaining in Western Europe," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Carlo Dell’Aringa & Giuseppe Rocca & Berndt Keller (ed.), Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment, chapter 3, pages 48-70, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-2017-1_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403920171_3
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    1. Lorenzo Bordogna & Stefano Neri, 2014. "Austerity policies, social dialogue and public services in Italian local government," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 20(3), pages 357-371, August.

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