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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 383-399Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0959680120951700
Keywords
Climate policy; concession bargaining; decarbonization; European Union; social dialogue; trade union strategy
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- National Research Fund, Luxembourg [Inter/Mobility/18/12417129]
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This article aims to provide a better understanding of trade unions' climate change strategies. Using a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of interviews and documents, the article sets out the three ideal-typical strategies of unions towards climate change mitigation policies:opposition, hedgingandsupport. Our analysis finds that current trade union strategies on climate change are primarily rooted in sectoral interests mediated by union identities and conceptions of union democracy. At a theoretical level, the article contributes to broader debates on interest representation and collective bargaining behaviour by trade unions, in particular to the much-discussed tendency of organized groups to pursue private gains at the expense of common goods.
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