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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]
English: World map with countries shaded according to their trade union density rate with statistics provided by the International Labour Organization Department of Statistics 90.0–99. 9 % 80.0–89. 9 %
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.
State Union Coverage Density, 1977–2008 This page was last edited on 27 January 2024, at 23:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Collective agreement coverage or union representation refers to the proportion of people in a country population whose terms and conditions at work are made by collective bargaining, between an employer and a trade union, rather than by individual contracts.
The largest Swedish union confederation is the blue-collar Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen, or LO). The LO has about 1.5 million members (including pensioners), which is a sixth of Sweden's population (Swedish blue-collar density in 2000 was 83% and in 2019 60%; the total density of blue-collar + white-collar employees in ...
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...
Those federations listed under each country are also known as national trade union centres and are organizations formed by trade unions which operate, in most cases, at the national level. The organizations listed in the worldwide section are industry/sectoral-specific (i.e. the GUFs ) and international organizations representing national trade ...