COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AT EUROPEAN LEVEL: A SECTORAL EMPLOYERS’ VIEWPOINT

Part B concerns the experience to date of the social dialogue aspects of the Social Protocol of the Maastricht Treaty and the attempts by the European social partners to reach ‘agreements’ via social dialogue. In addition, it considers whether the social dialogue, coupled with the process involved in establishing a European works council imposed by the September 1994 Directive on transnational information and consultation, is a further move towards some form of European collective bargaining or merely another piece of European-level legislation that the proponents of European-level collective bargaining claim in support of their case.