In 2015 the number of strike days in companies belonging to the DA, Denmark’s main employers’ confederation hit its lowest level in twenty five years. According to researchers the drop is as much due to a strengthening of the Danish model at local level as it is to a paradigm shift, where optimization of labor prevails over wages and preventative dialogue holds sway over conflict.
In 2015, 138 wildcat strikes (overenskomststridige arbejdsnedlæggelser, literally: strikes that breach the collective agreement) making 7,979 strike days in Denmark’s private sector companies that belong to the DA employers’ confederation (ranging from industry to services, including the craft industry). This data comes from the latest quarterly statistics that were published by the DA last week and marks the lowest number of strike days since 1991 when the DA first started recording strike...
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