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Proactive employers and teachers’ working time regulation: Public sector industrial conflicts in Denmark and Norway

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Public sector industrial relations in Denmark are normally perceived as relatively consensual, and as a ‘model employer’ country with a strong collective bargaining tradition it is one of the countries where unilateral regulation could be least expected. However, in 2013, a lockout without any prior strike or strike-warning in the bargaining area for primary and lower secondary education only, came to an end through legislative intervention. The article includes three main arguments. First, the government and the public employers took these drastic steps because various factors created a rare ‘window of opportunity’ for them. Second, the reason a Norwegian industrial conflict in 2014 with a very similar point of departure ended very differently was first and foremost that the Norwegian process was not embedded in politics and policy reform to the same extent as the Danish process. Third, the Danish case shows that Denmark might not have escaped the trend towards unilateralism seen across Europe.

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  • Mikkel Mailand, 2019. "Proactive employers and teachers’ working time regulation: Public sector industrial conflicts in Denmark and Norway," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 40(3), pages 682-699, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:40:y:2019:i:3:p:682-699
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X16657414
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    1. Stephen Bach & Giuseppe Della Rocca, 2001. "The New Public Management in Europe," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Carlo Dell’Aringa & Giuseppe Rocca & Berndt Keller (ed.), Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment, chapter 2, pages 24-47, Palgrave Macmillan.
    2. Mikkel Mailand, 2014. "Austerity measures and municipalities: the case of Denmark," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 20(3), pages 417-430, August.
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    1. Nana Wesley Hansen, 2024. "Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 38(6), pages 1591-1610, December.

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