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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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Social Dialogue Brochure
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2004/nov/broc_soc-dial_2004_en.html

Brussels, 19 November 2004. The promotion of social dialogue in an enlarged Europe was the main theme of the conference organised by DG Employment and Social Affairs in Ljubljana in January 2004. Some 200 social partners from 27 countries took part in the event. The aim of the conference was to outline the state-of-play of social dialogue in the new Europe with 25 Member States, and to propose ways of improving industrial relations in an enlarged Europe.

The recently published brochure on the conference outlines the conclusions of the conference. It is available in French, English and German. Translations into the languages of the new Member States will be available during the first half of 2005.

Promoting Social Dialogue in an enlarged Europe (Manuscript completed in August 2004)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2004/nov/2004_1900_en.pdf
[full-text, 28 pages]

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 5
Chapter 1
Social dialogue: a culture of governance 7
1. The Community mechanisms 7
2. Some national experiences 8
2.1. The Irish example 8
2.2. The Dutch example 8
2.3. The French example 9
2.4. The Romanian example 9
2.5. The Slovene example 10
2.6. The Bulgarian example 10
Chapter 2
Tripartite and bipartite dialogues: promoting balance 12
Chapter 3
Autonomous partnerships, a force for change 14
1. The views of the cross-industry social partners 14
2. The views of some sectoral social partners 15
Chapter 4
Social dialogue in an enlarged Europe:
strength, weakness, and prospects 16
1. Representativeness 16
2. Autonomy 17
3. Training and information 18
4. Issues 19
5. Synergies 19
Conclusions 21
Annex: list of speakers 22
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