Kollektivavtalets roll på arbetsmarknaden : - En kvalitativ studie om medvetenhet, kommunikation och samverkan i förhållande till den svenska modellen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to analyze if the parties of the labor market, the trade unions, employers and employees, consider the collective agreement as encouraging for their cooperation. The purpose is also to examine how the actors experience the employee's awareness regarding rights, obligations and shaping of the collective agreement. Previous research regarding; the collective agreement, the Swedish model, communication and cooperation were fundamental to the empirical material in the study. These concepts, as well as the neoclassical perspective, were used to process the collected data.  The empirical data in the study was collected with the help of a qualitative method, in the form of semi-structured interviews. The interviews were carried out with the help of nine respondents with different roles in the labor market: two trade unions, two employers' and five employees’. The results show that the collective agreement, most of the time, promotes cooperation between the actors on the labor market. It also shows that the employees’ awareness regarding the collective agreement is relatively low.