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In December 2014, the German Federal Government adopted a draft law on the exclusive applicability of collective agreements – the so-called Tarifeinheitsgesetz. Critics see this as an unacceptable interference to the freedom of association. They point out that despite multi-unionism you can neither observe a substantial increase in new trade unions being set up nor an increase in labor disputes. Proponents of the legal regulation argue that the industrial peace obligation would be jeopardized by competing unions. Craft unions negotiated twice as intense as industrial unions. In industries with union competition, risk of conflicts would accumulate. In addition, the public interest would be harmed if unions battled out their rivalries during collective bargaining negotiations. The proposed law tackled these problems by providing stronger incentives for cooperation between competing unions.
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First economic analysis of a new labour law in Germany; furthermore, new approach of measuring the conflict intensity of collective bargaining with empirical findings
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First economic analysis of a new labour law in Germany; furthermore, new approach of measuring the conflict intensity of collective bargaining with empirical findings
Dr. Hagen Lesch
Cologne Institute for Economic Research
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This page is a summary of: Spartengewerkschaften, Statuskonflikte und Gemeinwohl: Gesetzlicher Ordnungsrahmen statt Laissez-faire, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zfwp-2015-0108.
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