The brilliant comeback of the « Chamberners » in the government – Diepresse.com
The social partners have never had as much weight in the government as now. For the time being, this is not good news for the country’s ability to reform: the organizations have made themselves comfortable in the existing structures.
Do you think that the social partners were previously a kind of institutionalized supporting government, but have meanwhile lost a lot of influence? So that with the « side » in the government has always been such a thing: what the two privately harmonizing titans of the domestic social partnership, Rudolf Sallinger (Chamber of Commerce) and Anton Benya (ÖGB), in the sixties, seventies and eighties during the regular « preferences » was practically automatic law. No matter which Chancellor was serving among them.
Then the air for the institutionalized compromise finding of the most part through compulsory (some also call them « compulsory-« ) membership of the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Agriculture, ÖGB and Chamber of Labor Rauer. The low point was bowl and briefly reached during the governments.
