Summary / Resumé
Matthias Möhring Hesse: Free collective bargaining for white collars
Last year hospital doctors have shown solidarity and fi ghting spirit – and have succeeded in industrial action against councils and state authorities. In this they have proved the advantage of solidarity – and this in the area of collective bargaining, whose advantage is often being disputed these days. The fact that solidarity was only obtainable for the physicians by segregating themselves from other groups, cannot be justifi ed towards those who have excluded them from their solidarity. The doctors‘ strike was probably not the beginning of a collective bargaining policy that is differentiated by occupational groups. Unions will, however, have to take into account groups with higher income; the German system of collective bargaining will therefore be less than in the past be in a position to take care of an even balance of income.