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      Closure, equality or organisation: Trade union responses to EU labour migration

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      Journal of European Social Policy
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          This paper explores trade union strategies to protect wages in the face of EU migration after the enlargement of the European Union. We argue that unions have three instruments at their disposal to deal with the risks linked to downward wage pressure: closure through immigration control, equalisation through collective bargaining and minimum wages, and the organisation of migrant workers. Using comparative case studies of Sweden, Germany and the UK, we show how different types of power resources shape union strategies: unions with substantial organisational resources (in Sweden) relied on a large membership to pursue an equalisation strategy and expected to be able to ‘afford’ openness. German unions with low membership but access to the political system pushed for a mix of closure and equality drawing on political intervention (e.g. minimum wages). British unions, unable to pursue either, focused their efforts on organisation.

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                Journal
                Journal of European Social Policy
                Journal of European Social Policy
                SAGE Publications
                0958-9287
                1461-7269
                November 2020
                November 18 2020
                November 2020
                : 30
                : 5
                : 528-542
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Leiden University, Netherlands
                Article
                10.1177/0958928720950607
                311135c6-362f-4cc9-9089-5116779f8705
                © 2020

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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