With traditional unions facing competition from low-cost unions (see our dispatches No. 110674 and 110123), the researchers are talking about an ‘organizing market’ to characterize the Danish union scene. This ‘liberalization’ is the result of the end of the ‘de facto monopoly’ traditional unions used to have, after several laws ‘deregulated’ this ‘market’ over the past couple decades. However, it is also the result of the end of the ‘monopoly on values’ because, at the same time, collective negotiations aligned themselves with an economic policy focused on fighting inflation and on competitiveness as requirements to save employment. There are also changes in the market and organization of labor, with the rise of atypical contract which weakened trade affiliation and identification with a specific union. Actually, affiliation with both the union and its unemployment fund, which grants traditional unions a higher organizing rate, has also been declining with the rise of yellow unions. These are like businesses and their members like “customers” purchasing a service. According to the researchers, competition based on the price forces traditional unions to ‘reinvent themselves if they want to survive,’ establishing themselves as businesses as well.
ective negotiations aligned themselves with an economic policy focused on fighting inflation and on competitiveness as requirements to save employment. There are also changes in the market and organization of labor, with the rise of atypical contract which weakened trade affiliation and identification with a specific union. Actually, affiliation with both the union and its unemployment fund, which grants traditional unions a higher organizing rate, has also been declining with the rise of yel
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