Covid-19 pandemics initiated a profound societal and economic changes with a reflection in the ways of working and labor relations. One year into the pandemics this topic is one of the most sensitive and one that will experience the most intense repercussions. This is visible not only by the...

Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions....