Crisis-related collective bargaining and its effects on different contractual groups of workers in German and Belgian workplaces
比较德国和比利时两家跨国公司在经济危机中的集体谈判，发现比利时工会保护了临时工和正式工，而德国临时工未受保护且正式工条件被让步。
This article investigates the effects of crisis-related collective bargaining on different contractual groups of workers. Comparing four workplaces of two multinationals in Germany and Belgium in the recent economic crisis, the authors observe that Belgian unions could protect some temporary workers’ jobs and when the crisis endured, the jobs and working conditions of the permanent workforces. In contrast, temporary jobs in the German workplaces were not protected and later on, the works councils had to concede on the permanent workers’ working conditions to safeguard their jobs. This is explained by the intersection of institutional and firm-level differences which interacted to offer (or not) resources to unions to enforce protection.