• Unions don’t work the same way in all european countries.

      In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.

      And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don’t know exactly how the other ones are organized

      • Austria has basically one big union (ÖGB), in which there are specific unions for different industries.

        So, yeah. Every country has their own history and different approaches to unionization.