Die Transformation einer bundesdeutschen Basisinstitution - oder: warum Bob Dylan Recht hatte...

eine Replik auf Michael Wendls konservative Verteidigung des Flächentarifvertrag in PROKLA 129

Abstract

Industry-wide collective agreement is one of the important basic institutions of  Geman welfare state, Mainstream arguments are that due to changed business environment industrywide collective agreements are more and more getting under pressure, In PROKLA 129 Michael Wendl presented a thesis against this view and argued that the problem is not the business environment but the failure to adjust to it on part of trade unions, This statement is challenged by arguing that in order to secure the efficiency of the collective agreement policy under the changed conditions a new mix between institutiOl,lal, organizational, and policy-related changes is essential and it should be provided by the collective bargaining parties themselves, Both parties have already achieved some acceptable results in this regard,