Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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LYUDMYLA REFERENCES LITERATUR VOLYNETS<br />
One explanation could be the legal procedure<br />
that makes any protest prior to the longlasting<br />
solution procedure illegal. The second<br />
explanation originates from the persecution of<br />
independent trade unions.<br />
CONCLUSION<br />
This paper explained the segmentation of IR in<br />
Ukraine through analysis of the development<br />
and impact of unions into the IR outcome. It<br />
was argued that, with the background of the enterprise-specifics<br />
developments, IR are shaped<br />
by the interactions between management and<br />
unions. As Ukrainian unions find themselves<br />
in the formative processes, two kinds of unionism<br />
are emerging in Ukraine that contribute to<br />
different IR outcomes.<br />
Such ideological incoherency and a divide<br />
within labour movement are central to explain<br />
labour dynamics and its formative processes.<br />
Former official unions seem to have little<br />
prospects for reform, at least at the current<br />
stage of development. Locally, many former<br />
official unions on the enterprise-level succeed<br />
in breaking away from such subordination<br />
relationships. But this has not taken on a<br />
broader scale so far. Independent unions offer<br />
more prospects for workers’ interest articulation.<br />
But they also face serious barriers to their<br />
development, as they threaten established<br />
informal order both nationally and locally.<br />
The development from transmission belts to<br />
social partnership demonstrates very little<br />
progress of labour revitalization, because the<br />
contestation of IR arenas is still much more<br />
constrained for independent union development<br />
and, not least, the agency imposed by<br />
external settings is not enough to challenge<br />
the current state of things. On both trajectories<br />
of developments, one may speak of dependencies.<br />
In the case of ex-official unions,<br />
it is dependency on the management and the<br />
state. In the case of independent unions, it is<br />
dependency on members that are at this point<br />
passive, individualistic, and consumerist.<br />
The review of the developmental trajectories<br />
of the FPU and KVPU in Ukraine confirmed<br />
the arguments advanced earlier. Major<br />
centres of union activities are put in place<br />
and identifiable in terms of two different<br />
models of unionism. They embody the two<br />
differentiating logics of unionism they follow.<br />
Whereas the FPU pursues conciliatory politics<br />
and strives to preserve its membership on the<br />
basis of its commercial activities, the KVPU<br />
commits itself to the vision of unionism<br />
structured along the lines of class antagonism.<br />
Militancy and action are more likely in case of<br />
independent unions. Although the autonomy<br />
of the ex-official Federation is limited,<br />
it still finds itself in the more supportive<br />
settings, originating from its dominance and<br />
collaborative relationships with employers<br />
and government. In contrast, independent<br />
trade unions originate from worthier starting<br />
conditions (in terms of resources) and initially<br />
find themselves in more constraining settings<br />
determining their further development, than<br />
do ex-official unions.<br />
The consistent decline in the FPU Seite page 235<br />
membership still does not allow any<br />
conclusions on the prospects of the exofficial<br />
unions; and the bottom-level processes<br />
within the FPU are often contradictory. At this<br />
point, it is evident that national-level union