Trade Unions

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that, despite the fact that employer groups have attacked the weak social rights concepts in the E.U. treaties, union strength has shrunk enormously. The author points out that part of the problem of the trade unions may accrue to the unions themselves because they operate under an old paradigm, refusing to accept labor market reforms, which would return work to the working class. The paper concludes that the local monopolies and trade unions are as extinct as the dodo bird; very few even recalling what they were like just two decades ago.

Table of Contents
What Happened?
Why Do Trade Unions Continue Ineffective?
Attempted Turnaround
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"It is unlikely capital's is going to allow the other holders of capitol--the financial corporations, multi-national executives and their universe--to suffer significant costs associated with the changing economic pattern caused by globalization. As has been seen in the case of France in 2002, the state governments are willing to offer various "bribes" to the stakeholders to prevent unions regaining access to the economic rent that once supported their activities."

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