In the wake of the financial and economic crisis, the trade unions face unprecedented challenges. While the European powers that be are blatantly coordinating t

Trade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges. This includes the near-universal contraction in union membership; the related decline of tradit

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This text considers what the problems of the increasingly hostile environment - conditioned by growing globalization and structural changes in the European econ