Practice question · True or false
Collective bargaining covers a far larger share of employees in Spain than belong to a trade union, because sectoral agreements are legally extended to firms whose workers are not members.
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- Compare the membership figure with the coverage figure given in this lesson.
- The mechanism is legal extension of a sectoral agreement.
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True
Why
True. Density runs at roughly one employee in seven while coverage is around 80 per cent. The gap makes union strength hard to read from membership alone: Spanish unions bargain for far more people than they represent as members, which shapes both their finances and their politics.
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