>On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 at 6:02pm Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>>
>> >Why is French union density so low, and why does it
>> >have a social democratic welfare state despite that,
>> >which, if we had it, would make us think thatthe
>> >revolution was over and we'd won? jks
>>
>> I think French unions had/have low membership, but
>> negotiate on behalf of a much larger share of the
>> workforce than accounted for by their membership. Or
>> used to.
>
>what do you mean "used to"?
Only because I wasn't sure if things had changed since I read about the arrangement in an OECD report 4-5 years ago.
Doug