This is the country report on Finland in the project launched by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions on the social implicatins of EMU, especially in the labour market and industrial relations, insix EU countries. The report is essentially based on the...

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...