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In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support functions, and it grows to more and more the more employees there is. Whether those representative act on their own, or join a national union or syndicate, is their own decision, and they're elected every 4 years. Any meeting or importance be…
> In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support functions, and it grows to more and more the more employees there is. In Germany, that's called "Betriebsrat" (something like "company council") with pretty much the same purpose. And then there's the "Gewerkschaft", which are unions not fo…
I’ve never been highly convinced by these organs, since they seem to be colonised by folks who want to become Very Difficult to Fire, and who ultimately fold to any poorly thought-through management decision that impacts the lives of employees.
I’ve come to that both as an individual contributor and as a senior manager, but YMMV.