Title: Trade Union Responses to Globalization: Spain
Abstract: Spain has 17 regions with broad administrative and legislative powers, including regional parliaments. In relation to employment contracts legislative competence is granted exclusively to the State. In other areas, however, the regions show ever-increasing differences in terms of the social services and assistance they provide, as reflected in the social allowances paid to very poor people and in employment benefits for groups experiencing particular integration difficulties. Since the beginning of the 1980s, when the 17 autonomous regions came into operation, the Basque nationalist trade unions have supported the 'autonomous framework of labour relations' whose first significant achievement was the Interconfederal Agreement for the Extrajudicial Settlement of Disputes (PRECO, 1984). PRECO provides for collective disputes within the Basque country, and it has served as a model for similar agreements in the other regions of Spain and at national level (ASEC, 1996).
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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