Economic union without social union: The strange case of the European social dialogue

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 460-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Prosser
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
European Social Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
European Trade ◽  
Economic Union

The recent centralization of European economic governance raises the question of parallel developments in European social policy. On the basis of an examination of the case of the European social dialogue, the propensity of ‘spill-over’ theories to explain developments in the social sphere is considered. The following three potential future trajectories for the dialogue are reviewed: the possibility of the dialogue (1) becoming broader and more redistributive, (2) becoming a means of European Union (EU)-level wage control or (3) remaining in its current form. It is concluded that the status quo is likely to endure and that such a development threatens the integrity of spill-over theories and raises the issue of the dialogue’s utility to European trade unions.

SOCIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A CURRENT STATE OF THE VILLAGE

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bokenchina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Social Characteristic ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time

The author researchers the social sphere consisting of the branches’ set creating various products in the form of non-material and material services which finally provide inquiries of the society in Kazakhstan that comes to be very important and authentic for the current matter of fact for this country. Transformations associated with the transition to the market economy caused a sharp decline in the rural population of life quality. In the context of transformational recession social services in the rural areas for a long time operated on prevailing conditions in the planned economy assets, resulting in the quality of its services significantly decreased.At the same time, the social sphere of urban economy is largely felt the benefits of the economic growth and participation in the reconstruction of this sector and took the largest system of corporation, especially in the status of city-companies within the social responsibility of business and regional agreements of social partnership.

scholarly journals Union struggle and the crisis of industrial relations in Italy

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Pulignano
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Union Power ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Government

This paper argues that the Berlusconi government is seeking to replace the ‘social concertation’ arrangement between government and trade unions with ‘social dialogue’ in an effort to undermine trade union ‘power’. This endeavour by the government to impose a policy of ‘social dialogue’ would severely limit trade unions' influence in economic and social policy decision-making and leave Berlusconi free to introduce reforms favouring his friends in employer organisations. One likely outcome would be the deregulation of the Italian labour market strongly damaging workers' rights.

Workers' representation at company level in CEE countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Stanojevic ◽  
Grigor Gradev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Collective Interest ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Interest Representation ◽  
Workplace Relations ◽  
The Social

Current workplace relations in central and eastern European candidate countries are strongly influenced by the legacy of fragmented workers’ interests and at best undeveloped semi-autonomous forms of collective interest representation. In addition, most trade unions have been unable to develop adequate strategies to cope with the pressures of radical marketisation and to forge collective identities. In this environment the mechanical implementation of social dialogue institutions could trigger opposition from the trade unions, conflicts between unions and works councils in companies where autonomous trade unions exist, and even serious damage to the unions. The social dialogue institutions will only have the desired effects in CEE companies if they are developed on the basis of trade unions that have been strengthened, or even, in the case of non-unionised companies, created. This article draws on empirical research into the operation of trade unions and works councils in the CEE countries, in particular Hungary and Slovenia.

Creating a more dynamic European social dialogue by strengthening the sectoral dimension

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Kollewe ◽  
Reinhard Kuhlmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Shape Change ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Bargaining Solutions ◽  
Binding Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Programme ◽  
Economic Union

The challenge facing European integration is to link up economic union with political and social union. A degree of ambivalence surrounds the European social dialogue: pronounced dead in some quarters, it has meanwhile been institutionalised at the highest level at the Tripartite Social Summit in spring 2003 and recently given rise to the ETUC and UNICE work programme. In this article the authors describe the shortcomings of the sectoral social dialogue in terms of inadequate national and European networks and the lack of binding force of its results. Social dialogue must aim to shape change and, by developing a stronger sectoral dimension, seek to take up more industrial policy topics with a view to reconciling competitiveness and social inclusion. An additional long-term orientation for the social dialogue, geared to triggering new developments by means of participation, can put in place the conditions for effective bargaining solutions.

scholarly journals Social partnership as a mechanism of agreement of group interests

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. Dehanova
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Strong State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Body ◽  
Representation Of Interests

The article deals with the features of representation of interests in the system of social partnership of modern Russia. Two main approaches to the category of “social partnership” are analyzed: narrow, in which the social partnership is understood as the relationship between employers, employees and trade unions in the labor sphere and broad, considering social partnership as intersectoral social interaction between the three sectors of society — government body, commercial enterprises and nonprofit organizations in order to solve the problems of the social sphere. The conditions influencing the process of institutionalization of various models of social partnership are analyzed. The author pays special attention to the process of formation of the Institute of social partnership in modern Russia. The negative factors hindering the formation of an effective, rather than formal, system of social partnership are identified: the underdevelopment of civil society institutions, the weakness of trade unions, the lack of effective representation of employers, too strong state dominance, inequality of the parties. The use of foreign experience of non-confrontational ways of regulating social relations should be adapted to Russian realities.

The evolution of capitalism and the future of employment policy in the EU

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Dominique Bé
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Union Action ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
The Eu

The emergence of the financial capitalism model in continental Europe is not unrelated to the debate on reform of the European social model, the paradox being that now that workers have gained ownership of the means of production, they actually control them less and less. This evolution is liable to affect the basis of a social model traditionally anchored in Rhineland capitalism, the more so in that the globalisation of financial flows has reduced the control exercised by the EU over its enterprises. The trade unions are concerned at the impact of these developments on companies' behaviour in the social sphere, in particular as regards the co-determination, information and consultation of workers. Yet the development of employee shareholdings and pension funds opens up new opportunities for trade union action, entailing the growing involvement of employees in corporate governance which is thus becoming a major challenge for workers and, more broadly, for employment policy and its relationship to other policy areas, above all the internal market.

scholarly journals BUDGET POLICY IN THE FIELD OF EXPENDITURE IN THE COORDINATES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Liubov LYSIAK ◽  
Svitlana KACHULA ◽  
Alina ABDIN
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Budget Policy ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Budget

Introduction. Social development is an important process of society functioning and it involves human potential strengthening, ensuring the appropriate level of welfare. An important condition for progressive social development is the budget policy on state and local budget expenditures. Expenditures as an instrument of budget policy is a source of public needs, therefore significantly affect the social sphere development. In the context of the crisis caused by unprecedented restrictions on business activity, the fall of GDP exacerbates social problems; it actualizes the study of theoretical principles, practical mechanisms/processes and priority areas for improving the effectiveness of social spending field fiscal policy. The purpose of the article is to reveal the theoretical aspects and substantiate the practical aspects of budget expenditures as a tool of budget policy of social development. Results. Theoretical principles of the essence of budget expenditures in the context of necessity of the state social function implementation are revealed. It is established that the formation of budget expenditures is influenced by economic, political, social and institutional factors. The priority directions of budget policy in the field of social budget expenditures in the conditions of financial and economic crisis, as well as for the medium and long term are highlighted. Emphasis is placed on the problematic aspects of budget policy in the field of budget expenditures to ensure the health care system in Ukraine. Conclusions. The directions of increasing the efficiency of budgetary policy in the sphere of budget expenditures for social development are offered. In particular - improving the system of expenditure planning, introducing annual mandatory reviews of budget expenditures and their timely publication, improving the institutional framework of partnership in the social programs/projects implementation, strengthening the institution of public control over local budgets, increasing transparency, accessibility, clarity for population and the timeliness of reporting on the status of social programs implementation. Emphasis is placed on the need to implement practical measures to eliminate/neutralize negative factors that affect the implementation of effective budget policy of budget expenditures.

scholarly journals The Social Dialogue as a Source of EU Legal Acts—Past Performance and Future Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aukje A.H. van Hoek
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Output Analysis ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
The Status

EU law recognizes the regulatory role of social partners—the bodies representing management and labour—but provides neither a legal nor a fully developed conceptual framework. An output analysis of the texts produced by the social partners demonstrates that they fulfil a variety of functions, both as stakeholders and co-regulators. However, only a small percentage of the documents produced in the European social dialogue have the status of EU collective agreements. It is the latter group which is most interesting from the point of view of regulation. A further analysis tracks the different interactions between EU law and EU collective agreements and highlights the tension between horizontal and vertical subsidiarity created by the REFIT agenda.

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