Sectoral collective bargaining

Sectoral collective bargaining is an aim of trade unions or labor unions to reach a collective agreement that covers all workers in a sector of the economy. It contrasts to enterprise bargaining where agreements cover individual firms. Generally countries with sectoral collective bargaining have higher rates of union organisation and better coverage of collective agreements than countries with enterprise bargaining.[1]

Coverage by country

Countries that have sectoral collective bargaining have significantly higher rates of coverage than those with enterprise or individual workplace bargaining.[2]

Collective agreement coverage by country in 2015
Country Coverage in 2015 System
France 98% Sector[3]
Belgium 96% Sector (and national)
Austria 95% Sector
Finland 91% Sector (and national)
Portugal 89% Sector
Sweden 89% Sector (but also enterprise)
Netherlands 84% Sector (but also enterprise)
Denmark 80% Sector (but also enterprise)
Italy 80% Sector
Norway 73% Sector (and national)
Spain 69% Sector (but also enterprise)
Slovenia 65% Sector
Croatia 61% Sector
Germany 59% Sector
Ireland 44% Enterprise
Czech Republic 38% Enterprise (some sector)
United Kingdom 29% Enterprise (some sector)
United States 10% Enterprise
Greece 10% Enterprise[4]

United Kingdom

While sectoral bargaining used to be standard in the UK, enterprise bargaining was advocated by the 1968 report of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations chaired by Lord Donovan.

United States

Sectoral bargaining was promoted by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, but struck down and replaced by enterprise bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

See also

Notes
  1. H Collins, KD Ewing and A McColgan, Labour law in context (Cambridge University Press 2012) 546
  2. See Collective bargaining coverage from worker-participation.eu
  3. Reforms under Macron have since allowed enterprise agreements to under sector agreements.
  4. This has dropped from 65% since 2012, see H Collins, KD Ewing and A McColgan, Labour law in context (Cambridge University Press 2012) 546

References
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