In the UK, the Labour Party’s commitment to sectoral collective bargaining could bring positive changes
The UK Labour Party seems to have drawn a lesson from this. If it wins power in the election expected next year, it now plans to focus on just one sector — social care. The plan is to get the system running smoothly so it can bear fruit before the country goes to the polls again.
That said, I think it is a worthwhile experiment. Partly, because I think improvements to low pay, poor training and zero-hours contracts in the social care sector would benefit both staff and the people they look after. Negotiating this way could be good for employers, too. In Sweden, which has a long-standing system of sectoral collective bargaining, Mattias Dahl of the employer body the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise believes it is better for businesses to negotiate pay and conditions with unions than to be regulated by employment laws. “We have been able to be more flexible — we can change regulations faster than the law could.
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