6 YEARS OF AUSTERITY AND THE IMPACT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Saturday, 15th November 2014, Paris, France   – Conference Reader – (speeches or Power Point slides)

Prof. Keith Ewing (Kings College London),
Introduction – Collective Bargaining in times of Austerity

Isabelle Schoemann (Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels),

Collective Bargaining – comparison of the changes on national level under the impact of the crisis. How can the European law contribute to fight against the regression

Prof. Filip Dorssemont (Université Catholique de Louvain),

Austerity in the jurisdiction of the ECtHR and the ECJ

Dr. Reingard Zimmer (soon Prof. of labour law at Berlin school of Economics and Law),

How it all started – the  role of Germany concerning the roll back of labour law in the EU and Trade Union Strategies in Europe against the policy of austerity

Prof. Pascal Lokiec (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre),

How austerity is forcing French unions, works councils and workers to make concessions

Prof. Antonio García-Muñoz, Profesor Contratado, Castilla La Mancha University (Ciudad Real, Spain)

Spain and other South-European countries as drastic examples of austerity of labour law and collective bargaining