Employee welfare and restructuring in the public sector: evidence from Poland and Serbia/ created by Magdalena Bernaciak, Anil Duman and Vera Šćepanović

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Bernaciak, Magdalena [author]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: European journal of industrial relations ; Volume 17, number 4London: Sage, 2011Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

09596801

Subject(s):

Public sector -- Organizational change -- Privatization -- Poland -- Serbia

LOC classification:

HD8371 EUR

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Abstract: Labour in Central-Eastern Europe is widely regarded as a uniformly weak actor. We challenge this view, and explore the conditions under which CEE labour can play an active role in the welfare reform process. We draw on evidence from education and health care in Poland and Serbia, and show that public sector unions have largely retained their ability to prevent major restructuring and to defend employment-related privileges of their constituencies. The unions’ resilience is explained by the fact that the public sector in these countries remains sheltered from competitive pressures by delayed privatization, and by the extensive structural and associational power enjoyed by public sector employees.

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Labour in Central-Eastern Europe is widely regarded as a uniformly weak actor. We challenge this view, and explore the conditions under which CEE labour can play an active role in the welfare reform process. We draw on evidence from education and health care in Poland and Serbia, and show that public sector unions have largely retained their ability to prevent major restructuring and to defend employment-related privileges of their constituencies. The unions’ resilience is explained by the fact that the public sector in these countries remains sheltered from competitive pressures by delayed privatization, and by the extensive structural and associational power enjoyed by public sector employees.

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