Summary: The ETUI’s policy brief argues that achieving 80% collective bargaining coverage requires sectoral bargaining systems, suggesting that EU adopt best practices from the 8 nations already meeting this threshold. There is one problem. It is not going to happen. The ETUO fails to mention the fact that trade union density continues to decline across Europe and that the reason collective bargaining coverage is low in many countries is that the unions simply do not have members Introduction: The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), the research arm of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), has recently published a Policy Brief…
