Europeanization of Labour Relations

研究小组“横向欧洲化.欧洲作为国家和全球领域之间的新兴社会实体”的分项目6侧重于欧元区的宏观经济失衡以及由危机/危机引起和造成的欧洲经济治理的新框架。在此背景下，集体谈判领域变得越来越重要。由于经济及货币联盟(经货联盟)不再提供货币贬值作为提高国际成本竞争力的工具，国家集体谈判制度成为适应宏观经济失衡的重要参数。因此，跨国界协调工资政策的必要性增加了，而有效协调的前提条件由于最近干预了公共赤字较大和公共债务水平较高的国家的工资制定机构而恶化。在这个项目中，我们旨在分析工资政策跨国协调的机会和限制。因此，我们的重点是欧洲工会及其成员组织之间的关系，因为工会在国家和部门利益上的不同立场以及对跨国协调的成本和收益的看法在欧洲一级被认为进一步加剧。我们的目的是调查那些有助于或阻碍跨国劳工政策协调的社会机制。在分析中，雇主协会和(跨)国家政府行为者应被视为工资谈判协调领域的(潜在)行为者以及工会的对象。

Sub-project 6 of the research group "Horizontal Europeanization. Europe as an emerging social entity between the national and global sphere" focuses on macroeconomic imbalances in the Eurozone and the new framework of European Economic Governance causing and resulting from the crisis/crises. Against this background the field of collective bargaining has gained in importance. With currency devaluations as a tool to improve international cost competitiveness not being available any more in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), national collective bargaining systems became an important parameter to adjust to macroeconomic imbalances. Thus, the need to coordinate wage policies across borders increased while the preconditions for an effective coordination have worsened due to recent interventions into wage setting institutions of countries with large public deficits and high levels of public debt by national governments and the Troika.In this project we aim at analysing the opportunities and limits of a transnational coordination of wage polices. Thereby, our focus is on the relationship between European trade unions and their member organisations as trade unions' diverging national and sectoral interest positions and perceptions of costs and benefits of a transnational coordination are assumed to be further exacerbated at the European level. We aim at investigating those social mechanisms that contribute to or hinder the coordination of labour policies at transnational level. Employers' associations and (trans)national governmental actors shall be considered in the analysis as (potential) actors in the field of wage bargaining coordination as well as addressees of trade unions.