Negoziare gli effetti dell’incertezza? In discussione la capacità di governance della contrattazione collettiva

The article makes four main arguments. First, collective bargaining has the capacity to mitigate the negative effects arising from market volatility, and the process of marketization, by establishing arrangements which provide substantive and procedural certainty for both workers and employers, and greater security for workers. Second, multi-employer bargaining arrangements are better equipped to fulfil this function than single-employer ones. Third, there are institutional differences amongst multi-employer bargaining arrangements concerning governance of bargaining at the company level which considerably influence their capacity to promote certainty and security. Fourth, under the pressures brought about by the crisis, the marketization of multi-employer collective bargaining is being accelerated, with potentially damaging consequences for the ability to address negative effects.