But Alan Flitcroft, a football finance expert at Ernst and Young, told BBC Sport that problems with individualbargaining in Italy and Spain had softened the EC's stance.
Recently, the NLRB sanctioned a policy that threatens to balkanize American businesses with a multiplicity an individualbargaining units, differentiated solely by the specific task they perform or the location within the shop that they perform it.
They also have more bargaining power with hotels since they book more often than individual business travellers, and they often trawl faster and more efficiently for the best deals.