Hyper-mobile migrant workers and Dutch trade union representation strategies at the Eemshaven construction sites

The EU regulatory regime and employers' cross-border recruitment practices complicate unions' ability to represent increasingly diverse and transnationally mobile workers. Even in institutional contexts where the industrial relations structure and labour law are favourable, such as the Netherlands, unions struggle with maintaining labour standards for these workers. This article analyses Dutch union efforts to represent hyper-mobile construction workers at the Eemshaven construction sites. It shows that the nexus of subcontracting, transnational mobility, legal insularity and employer anti-uni... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Berntsen, Lisa
Lillie, Nathan
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Reihe/Periodikum: Berntsen , L & Lillie , N 2016 , ' Hyper-mobile migrant workers and Dutch trade union representation strategies at the Eemshaven construction sites ' , Economic and Industrial Democracy , vol. 37 , no. 1 , pp. 171-187 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X14537357
Schlagwörter: Construction / Dutch industrial relations / migrant organizing / migrant workers / posted workers / UNITED-KINGDOM / LABOR / UK / RESPONSES / FINLAND / NORWAY / SPAIN
Sprache: Englisch
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