Problems and Solutions: Collective Bargaining in China

Collective bargaining is an important mechanism to modify industrial relations in market-oriented economy. It is also the effectively basic and major means for regulating and modifying labor relations in west countries. Not only does collective bargaining establish the level of employee's wage and benefits, but also serves as an important means of conflict resolution. The basic of bringing the modifying effect of collective bargaining into play is to resolve the problem in implementation of collective bargaining in our country. Collective bargaining is not only a means to ensure the implementation of present laws, but also an important measure of establishing new rules. The development of collective bargaining systems depends on whether we select agreement self-government model or the government play the major role in it.