Trade Unions

Trade unions in europe, specially en germany, are very strong but are few, managers can be
forced to share decision-making power with trade unionists, and
where they can question managers to make sure that enough
redundancies have been made to save the company, and where trade
unionists can vote in favour of bonuses for the management (Piette, 2004)


Extra-EU trade by main declaring Member State, 2008
As the chart shows, the German trade unions represent a lot compared with othe countries like Spain or France. But in only 8 out of the current 27 member states of the European Union (EU) are more than half of the employed population members of a trade union (Fedee)

According to that, this fragment of Fedee, supports what i'm saying; Over the last twenty years there has been a widespread decline in trade union membership throughout most of western Europe. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, unionisation in many eastern European states has collapsed at an even more dramatic rate. In Poland, for example, today's 14 % level of unionisation is in marked contrast to that of the Soviet-controlled era, when almost all workplaces were unionised. Most of those who remain trade union members in Poland work for former state-owned companies.