Despite surface stability, there are significant changes in the modes of
governance regulating the relationship between law and collective bargaining as
a source of labour rights, and between norms defined at EU, national, sectoral
and company level. This article focuses on the European integration process as a
key source of change, first outlining the weaknesses of informal coordination of
wage bargaining within and across countries, then discussing the tensions for
trade unions created by Economic and Monetary Union. It concludes by examining
the diffusion of ‘opening clauses’ in sectoral agreements,
the displacement of collective by individual rights promoted by EU law and the
reduction in statutory standards of welfare and social rights.
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