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Confronting a Changing Economy: Union Responses in Finland

Satu Kalliola

University of Tampere

This article looks at the economic and social changes confronting trade unions in Finland, and how the unions are responding to these changes. The original empirical research comprises a sample of 12 unions, and the interviews with union leaders, officials and trustees focus on the societal changes and the ensuing union responses from the interviewees’ own experience and point of view. Finland has seen a change from strike-prone unionism towards labour–management cooperation that extends the limits of a single workplace and is aimed at the development of whole business branches. The motivation is to secure job opportunities, which after the recent severe depression has become a top priority for the unions and which takes place parallel to the traditional interest-based bargaining, albeit as an unofficial strategy.

Key Words: economic change • labour–management cooperation • neocorporatism • societal change • unemployment • union responses • workplace development

Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 2, 257-287 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X05051519
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