ABSTRACT

This contribution aims to provide a better understanding of trade unions’ engagement with climate change policies. It analyses the interactions between intra- and interorganizational bargaining, taking steel trade unions’ engagement with the 2018 revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) as a case study. The contribution finds that interorganizational bargaining with employers’ organizations strongly influenced the formulation of trade unions’ negotiating positions on the EU ETS. This is mainly due to the combination of three factors: the scope EU multilevel decision-making offers each level of trade union action to pursue its interests; trade unions’ lack of expertise on climate policies; and the tradition of concession bargaining in the manufacturing industry. By underlining the difficulties faced by trade unions in developing an independent course of action on the EU ETS, the contribution expands our knowledge of the socio-political obstacles to implementing effective emissions reduction policies.

摘要

这一贡献旨在让人们更好地了解工会参与气候变化政策的情况。它分析了组织内和组织间谈判之间的相互作用，以钢铁工会参与 2018 年修订的欧盟排放交易体系 (EU ETS) 作为案例研究。贡献发现，与雇主组织的组织间谈判强烈影响了工会在 EU ETS 谈判立场的制定。这主要是由于三个因素的综合作用：欧盟多级决策为各级工会行动提供的范围以谋求其利益；工会缺乏气候政策方面的专业知识；以及制造业中让步谈判的传统。