"The "coordination approach" as an alternative path towards a Europeanisation of collective bargaining . Until recently both academic and political discussions on a "Europeanisation of collective bargaining" have focused almost exclusively on the issue of "European social dialogue". Initiated by the Val Duchess process in the mid-1980s, and further reinforced by the Social Protocol of the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s, the emergence of more systematic and institutionalised relations between trade unions and employers' associations at European level became widely regarded as an embryonic form of a supranational European collective bargaining system. ..."

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