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ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 171-187Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X14537357
Keywords
Construction; Dutch industrial relations; migrant organizing; migrant workers; posted workers
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- European Research Council [263782]
- European Research Council (ERC) [263782] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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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-unionism complicate enforcement so that even well-resourced unions can, at best, improve employment conditions for a limited set of workers and only for a limited period of time.
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