Négociations interprofessionnelles et compétitivité structurelle

Abstract

The article brings to mind, in reference to Belgium, the debates between social interlocutors around the theme of structural competitiveness as well as the way in which they integrated this theme in the social compromises and that, since the end of the Second World War. It is divided into three parts. The first describes the first social compromise which was built around the Joint Declaration on Productivity. The second is interested in the period spreading out of 1970 to 1996 during which the social compromise has been dislocated. And the last part starts in 1996, with the law relating to the promotion of employment and the preventive safeguard of competitiveness. It recalls the attempts at rebuilding of a social compromise within a new socio-economic framework. This last one is marked by the challenges of globalisation, ageing of the population, social cohesion and the environmental protection.interprofessional negotiations, structural competitiveness, Belgium