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Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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119<br />

MEDIAN SALARY IN 1998 AND <strong>2002</strong> ACCORDING TO TRADE<br />

UNION MEMBERSHIP (Salaries <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> currency of <strong>the</strong> country concerned,<br />

deflated to 1998 price level)<br />

Trade union mem- ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA<br />

bership 1998 <strong>2002</strong> 1998 <strong>2002</strong> 1998 <strong>2002</strong><br />

-member<br />

Median<br />

St. deviation<br />

-non-<br />

Median<br />

member St. deviation<br />

2500<br />

kr<br />

1730<br />

kr<br />

2800<br />

kr<br />

2391<br />

kr<br />

2641<br />

kr<br />

2078<br />

kr<br />

2641<br />

kr<br />

2603<br />

kr<br />

80<br />

lat<br />

68<br />

lat<br />

80<br />

lat<br />

78<br />

lat<br />

108<br />

lat<br />

100<br />

lat<br />

85<br />

lat<br />

94<br />

lat<br />

600<br />

lit<br />

299<br />

lit<br />

550<br />

lit<br />

462<br />

it<br />

702<br />

lit<br />

273<br />

lit<br />

582<br />

lit<br />

452<br />

lit<br />

Membership of trade unions appears, <strong>the</strong>refore, to bear a relation to salary<br />

size. The result is clearest <strong>in</strong> Latvia and Lithuania, and <strong>the</strong> trend has been<br />

similar <strong>in</strong> Estonia also. Salary differences, too, are clearly smaller for <strong>the</strong> unionised<br />

than for <strong>the</strong> non-unionised - with <strong>the</strong> exception, however, of Latvia.<br />

From <strong>the</strong> standpo<strong>in</strong>t of pay, an even more important factor than trade union<br />

membership is <strong>the</strong> mak<strong>in</strong>g of collective agreements. Such agreements bear a<br />

direct relationship to salaries. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, <strong>the</strong>y apply also to some of those<br />

wage-earners who do not <strong>the</strong>mselves belong to trade unions. Collective<br />

agreements have been made at about one-quarter of <strong>the</strong> workplaces. The proportion<br />

of workers who are trade union members is clearly lower than this (see<br />

<strong>the</strong> chapter on Unionisation and Barga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g).<br />

When workplaces where a collective agreement has been made are compared<br />

with those where none has been made, a similar result to that above is obta<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />

In <strong>2002</strong>, <strong>the</strong> median salaries were def<strong>in</strong>itely at a higher level at workplaces<br />

that had made a collective agreement.

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