Abstract
German unification in 1990 entailed not only the extension of Western-style capitalism and the Federal Republic’s constitutional-institutional system to the former German Democratic Republic but also the establishment of social organisations on West German patterns. Key among them are regional branches of the 17 national trade unions that make up the national Confederation of German Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund or DGB). With the parallel reconstitution of democratic trade unions and employer associations throughout the five new Bundeslander unified Germany embraced Western Germany’s system of industrial relations. The interim outcome, however, has proved anything but a continuation of established practices of collective bargaining and industrial peace.
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