Verbandspluralität im Arbeitskampf

The author analyses how an industrial action, which is advanced by several independent unions against the same employer, could be coordinated while considering the applicable employment dispute law. The former active principle of tariff-union breaches the constitutional law and is therefore no adequate way to avoid multiple union patterns. Every form of coordination has to be based on common terms of collective negotiations, which have to follow the most representative trade union agreement. The author furthermore argues for common and compulsory mediation proceedings before one union is allowed to bring up strike-action. It is also allowed to judge on single strikes in a multiple union industrial action while balancing a unions representativeness, and the damages caused by the strike.