Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Post and courier services

This report examines the operations of social partner organisations and collective bargaining in the post and courier services sector. Outlining first the economic background of the sector, the study goes on to analyse the social partner organisations in all Member States of the European Union, with special emphasis on membership levels, the role of the organisations in collective bargaining and public policy, and their national and European affiliations. The final part of the report examines the relevant European organisations, in particular their membership composition and capacity to negotiate. Representativeness studies aim to identify the relevant national and supranational social partner organisations in the field of industrial relations in selected sectors. The impetus for these studies arises from the goal of the European Commission to recognise the representative social partner associations to be consulted under the EC Treaty provisions. Hence, this study seeks to provide basic information required to establish sectoral social dialogue.