Trade Unions in Serbia on the Move?
Publisher: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Serbia
Volume: 12 pages, pdf
Description In Serbia, in common with the whole region of the Western Balkans in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in the social power of workers and trade unions. This can be seen in particular in the number of trade union members. Fifteen years ago trade union density still stood at around 80 per cent. Due to the deindustrialisation of the Serbian economy, the numerous privatisations of state-owned companies and the pronounced loss of trust in trade unions the figure today is only 20 per cent. Trade union power(lessness) is most evident in the national tripartite body, in which the representative trade unions have quarrelled for years with the employers and the government about one of the lowest minimum wages in Europe.