Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining

Contents
Abstract 2
Introduction 2
Central features of collective bargaining 3
Negotiating levels and coordination between employees 5
The concept of Collective bargaining and measurement of coverage 5
Cross-country comparisons of collective bargaining coverage and trade unionization 6
Coverage in the Different employee regimes 8
Conclusion 9
References 9

Abstract
Industrial relation, which operate at a national, sectoral and local level, always play an important as well as efficient role in deciding economic as well as labor market mood as well as performance. They make up a system of regulations which relating economic agents who, while pursuing their self-interests, generally find it important to reach a unanimous consent and multiple forms of cooperation and unity. This paper looks at various aspects of trade unions and collective bargaining units.
Introduction

In deciding procedures for unanimity-making and conflict resolving, these collective bargaining measures always   shape the specific national laws and labor market locally, and as seen by each country’s current outlook towards labor , conflict and cooperation. There are multiple ways to see systems of labor relations in different countries. For instance, Chapter 4 of the 1991 Employment Outlook looks at trade union densities (the ratio of workers who are union members), and tells widely different rates of unionization across different   countries, which are from around 10 % in France to over 80 % in Sweden. Union density is one of indicators which tell about the story of a country’s industrial relations and other systems.   The range by which employees are into collective agreements which are at various levels - national, regional, sectorial or company level works out to be another salient feature of the system by which wages and other work settings are decided. In many countries, workers who are not a part of unions are in facto - through use of extensions...