In spite of a slight decrease in the number of workers because of the crisis, the unionization rate has gone from 66.9 up to 67.3 percent, with 8,000 new members between 2011 and 2012, due to the rise in "yellow" unions. On the contrary, the member hemorrhage continues for traditional unions. LO is the worst, going from 917,000 down to 872,000 members which, for the first time, is bringing its membership rate down to 48.9 percent (as opposed to 51.6 percent in 2010). This is the key founding of the analysis carried out by the Employment Relations Research Center of the University of Copenhagen (FAOS), about the dynamics of Danish trade unionism between 2011 and 2012, published on May 30, based on data gathered by the national statistics institute, Danmark Statistik. (Ref. 120361)
Leaving traditional unions. Confirming the trends showing in their report on the evolution of Danish trade unionism in 2011 (see our dispatch No. 110749), the researchers repeat their alert as to the threat the drop in traditional unionism poses to the conventional system on which the “Danish model” lies. Indeed, the organizations responsible for private sector collective agreements are still more affected: Their global organization rate went from 70 percent in 1995 down to 59.14 percent in
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