What is it about?

We focus on Italy and Spain, two of the countries with the most precarious labour markets in Europe, and address the specificity and variety of union responses. We relate these responses to the different institutional contexts, including employment and welfare regulation, and the power resources unions can draw upon

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Why is it important?

Conversely to what some consider that unions protect insiders against outsiders we found that in neither country did unions develop strategies of exclusion.

Perspectives

We show that for Italian unions, atypical workers may provide a way to sustain membership levels and power at the micro level. The main Spanish confederations can instead rely on their status as ‘most representative unions’ to maintain their influence and gain legitimacy to engage in macro-level tripartite social dialogue

Professor Valeria VP Pulignano
Associatie KU Leuven

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This page is a summary of: Union responses to precarious workers: Italy and Spain compared, European Journal of Industrial Relations, December 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959680115621410.
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