| dc.description.abstract | The practice of workers' participation the
decision-making process of management, as well as trade
union participation in advisory bodies which Influence
various aspects of government socio-economic policies, has
long been established in Western Europe. With the
development of tripartite bodies in the European Economic
Community CE.E.C.) the influence of trade union
organisations in the formulation of the Commission's social
and economic policies has increased as a whole in the last
two decades, despite the fact that the influence of trade
unions in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United
Kingdom has decreased in the last few years. This happened
because of the deteriorating relations between the trade
unions and the conservative governments of those two
countries, and especially of the latter | |
