ABSTRACT
In all industrial countries, collective bargaining arrangements and trade unions are under fierce pressure to change and adapt to new competitive pressures. Governments are trying to negotiate social pacts with organized labour that offer workers little in return for concessions on labour reforms and wage rollbacks. 1 They are using their power to push through sweeping labour law reforms. The question is will the decline in union organization and bargaining power now in evidence in all industrialized countries be reversed? Or will the marginalization of organized labour on both sides of the Atlantic continue well into the twenty-first century?
