20.500.12556/RUL-174658 Can trade unions in Europe afford to act sustainably? the ongoing green transition presents a unique opportunity to revitalize trade unions, while emphasizing their critical role in driving the development of sustainable production and consumption. in the absence of measures of trade unions’ actual sustainability performance and by drawing on the theory of affordances, this article combines the OecD/aias Database and the environmental Module of the international social survey Programme to develop an index-based approach. the approach identifies sustainability opportunities called “affordances” to help guide union agendas. the index is applied to 20 european countries, revealing that trade unions in Belgium, austria, Denmark, Portugal, and Norway have greater possibilities to address sustainability matters. in contrast, unions that emerged in transitional countries during the 1990s or early 2000s demonstrated fewer affordances. the study provides a snapshot of european trade unions’ role in sustainability transitions pertaining to environmental responsibility, social justice, and institutional power influenced by political and economic factors. trade unions sustainability index affordance theory comparative study sindikati trajnost (ekologija) Evropa true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Evropa; Članek v reviji 2025-10-08 11:04:00 2025-10-08 11:04:05 2025-11-26 03:53:21 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 18 str. Vol. 21 no. 1, [article no.] 2506199 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 331.105.44:502.131.1(4) 1548-7733 10.1080/15487733.2025.2506199 238741507 Bembic_et_al_SSPP.pdf Bembic_et_al_SSPP.pdf 1 A154394941549D1506DF1BB003DEF543 255b3ffc9dab2b940be0bf697987453420a2dcc113ce281de098a3a5d883daa1 09a25272-a426-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=219514 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2025.2506199 0 198ca3d1-a426-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=219515 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0