P&MS and Trade Unions: Organisation and Recruitment
One of the major challenges facing European trade unions is the recruitment and organisation of professional and managerial staff. Over the past decades, this occupational group has become more and more important in the European economies. If Europe can fulfil its ambition to be the world's most competitive knowledge-based economy, the labour market importance of this group of employees will only grow. Trade unions in Europe have already made serious efforts to meet the membership challenges of P&MS. It is however generally acknowledged that more needs to be done to ensure that a stronger trade union participation of P&MS is to be built
Organising professional & managerial staff
Professionals and managers have a very specific and often privileged position in the labour market. Do they need trade unions? How do P & MS trade unions recruit new mebers and retain current ones? How are professionals and managers organised in Europe and especially in the new memer states? What is the situation of female P & MS? In a recent project, EUROCADRES tried to answer these and other questions.
Jeremy Waddington & Reiner Hoffmann: Trade unions in Europe: reform, organisation and restructuring
Throughout much of western Europe the terms of the post- war settlement consolidated the position of trade unions. The state formalised the legal position of trade unions within the nation. Centralised or industrial collective bargaining arrangements encouraged particular forms of trade union activity, based on co- ordinated bargaining. Furthermore, the expansion of mass production regimes allowed trade unions access to a growing and relatively homogeneous membership
Marcus Kahmann: Trade Unions and Young people
The ICFTU World Congress in 2000 launched the Millennium Review of international trade union priorities, strategies and structures, to stimulate a broad and inclusive debate about future directions for the international trade union movement
Guy Van Gyes: Professional and managerial staff in Europe: labour market position and unionism
Eurocadres CONFERENCE, 26 & 27 of November 2004
