Some ways to improve the quality of social dialogue in companies.

Summary Little by little, during the 20th century, faced with the recurrent difficulties of employers' and trade unions' organizations to reach agreement on their own, the French State instituted, through legislation, a framework very favorable to the presence of trade unions in the company: establishment of staff delegates in 1936, irrebuttable presumption of representativeness for the CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC in 1966, union delegates in 1968, compulsory annual negotiations on wages and working conditions in companies with unions with the Auroux laws in 1982. The constant efforts of the public authorities to stimulate collective bargaining explain in large part the high rate of contractual coverage in France.