The decline in the dominance of one union in the workplace is an opportunity to revisit earlier debate on co-determination and establish multi-union participatory structures at workplace level.

This could be a way of reducing the growing social distance between union leadership and ordinary membership, and could also address systematically the low trust dynamic between management and workers...

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