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The following is a comparison of union density among OECD countries. Note that this is normally lower than the rate of collective bargaining coverage (for example, France reported a union density of 9% in 2014, while collective bargaining covered 98.5% of workers in the same year). [1]
The union density or union membership rate conveys the number of trade union members who are employees as a percentage of the total number of employees in a given industry or country. [1] This is normally lower than collective agreement coverage rate, which refers to all people whose terms of work are collectively negotiated.
The number of people who are covered by collective agreements is higher than the number of union members (or the "union density" rate), and in many cases substantially higher, because when trade unions make collective agreements they aim to cover everyone at work, even those who have not necessarily joined for membership.
Generally countries with sectoral collective bargaining have higher rates of forced union organisation and better coverage of collective agreements than countries with enterprise bargaining. [1] Research by the OECD , [ 2 ] ILO [ 3 ] and the European Commission [ 4 ] has also linked sectoral bargaining to higher real wages, lower unemployment ...
The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) is the interface of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) [1] with organized labour. TUAC has 59 affiliated trade union centres in 31 OECD countries, representing more than 66 million workers. It also has associate members in Brazil, Indonesia, Russia and South ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, [1] [4] founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
High trade union density and collective bargaining coverage. [23] In 2019, trade union density was 90.7% in Iceland, 67.0% in Denmark, 65.2% in Sweden, 58.8% in Finland, and 50.4% in Norway; in comparison, trade union density was 16.3% in Germany and 9.9% in the United States. [ 24 ]
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) is made up of ten global union federations (which affiliates national-level sectoral trade unions), the largest international federation of national centres (the ITUC) and the trade union body to the OECD (TUAC).