Towards a European minimum wage – different forms of networking among unions and employers’ organisations in the EU
in industrial relation systems in the European member states, the proposed directive encountered both opposition and support. On the one hand the Scandinavian countries, where minimum wages are set through [...] the employers’ network, the trade unions’ network is much denser. We can see much more connections both within countries as well as on the European level. This may have ‘technical’ reasons as we got more [...] may play a secondary role when it comes to discuss wage-related issues. Overall we can see that in both networks, transnational EU organizations such as the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) or