Gone are the days of declining union membership in Denmark. Over the past four years membership has risen from 67% to 69%. Union members continue to show a preference for joining “yellow” unions, to the detriment of membership of the traditional unions,though to a lesser extent than before.
The union situation in Denmark has stabilized, according to a labor specialist Flemming Ibsen, Professor at the University of Aalborg and co-author of a report based on statistics from the Danmark Statistik, the national institute for statistics, and published in the daily paper Politiken on September 29. The fall in union membership of traditional unions, specifically of LO and FTF has slowed versus the hemorrhage of previous years (c.f. article No. 080417). Union membership is rising in...
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