MrHelfer at 2024-02-14 08:59:42+00:00 ID: kqd1s1q

Of course, the whole setup surrounding unions is markedly different. We don't have unions per company, you're a member of a union based on your education and type of work. When enough employees are members of a union, the company must make an accord with the union. You cannot fire or hire based on union membership, and union membership is even a protected type of information, so the company is technically not supposed to know who is a union member (though calling in the union rep is a dead giveaway).

Negotiations between unions and employers do not start at a company level. Instead we have a system of biannual negotiations between the national unions and employer organisations. They make a broad accord, which will then be implemented in each company, with some leeway for adjustments.