Any unions on a European level are loosely connected support groups. Nothing else. Nordic unions are fundamentally different from for example the French, which

Any unions on a European level are loosely connected support groups. Nothing else. Nordic unions are fundamentally different from for example the French, which are more like the American. Both organize workers, but from completely different perspectives and completely different roles in their respective economic systems. None of them have much to do with the guild systems of old. Some countries still have the guild systems intact.