Trade unions and racism in London, Brussels and Paris public transport

Jefferys, Steve; Ouali, Nouria

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.2007.00455.x

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“…The TUC has also tried to establish collaborative connections with unions in emigration countries, especially in Poland (Hardy et al., 2012). However, no British union has as yet anything remotely close to proportionality of minority-origin union officials within their memberships; union representatives’ expectations of an effective participation of BME and immigrant workers are very often disregarded (Jefferys and Ouali, 2007: 408–9). In addition, lack of sufficient attention to workers’ interests beyond their workplaces typically leads to a marginalization of minority and immigrant workers.…”

Section: Labour Market Effects Of the Economic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant labour in Europe in times of crisis and austerity: An international political economy analysis

Pradella

Cillo

2015

Competition & Change

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This article develops an international political economy analysis of immigrant labour in Western\ud Europe, with a focus on Italy and the UK in the period following the outbreak of the global economic\ud crisis in 2008. Seeking to overcome the problem of methodological nationalism, the article places\ud cross-national comparison against the backdrop of the broader process of international accumulation\ud of capital. In this light, it examines the causes of the differential effects of the economic crisis upon EU\ud member states and various sections of the workforce. In both the UK and Italy, labour conditions and\ud trade unions are under attack; immigrant workers have been particularly affected by the rise in levels of\ud unemployment, the worsening of working conditions, and the heightening of anti-immigration practices,\ud legislations and discourses. The article concludes with a discussion of how the main trade unions\ud in the UK and Italy are responding to these economic, social and political challenges

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Section: Labour Market Effects Of the Economic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant labour in Europe in times of crisis and austerity: An international political economy analysis

Pradella

Cillo

2015

Competition & Change

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“…These criticisms proved realistic. Research conducted between 2003 and 2005 in five European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy and the UK), found that discrimination at work against ethnic and national minorities was widespread and that the trade unions at workplace level had not used the RED to challenge it (Jefferys, 2007;Jefferys and Ouali, 2007). A Fundamental Rights Agency 27 EU Member State study between 2008 and 2010 similarly found very few collective agreements explicitly acknowledging the RED.…”

Section: Challenging Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The context to challenging discrimination against ethnic minorities and migrant workers at work

Jefferys

2014

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Over the last decade trade union responses to racism and discrimination against ethnic minority and migrant workers have often reflected two competing discourses, one promoting anti-discrimination legislation and the other, xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. The Racial Equality Directive was adopted in 2000 to enter into force in 2003. Yet 11 September 2001 unleashed a tide of anti-Muslim prejudice and 10 years later, in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, a study by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights found that the Directive had had little impact on underlying levels of racism. In this article initial criticisms of the Directive are revisited. The impact of rising numbers of migrants and of slightly higher public intolerance of the ‘racialized outsider’ are considered. The article argues that racism is playing a growing role in justifying unequal treatment in employment. Its presence makes the solidarity needed to ensure proper social regulation of the increasingly ‘open’ European economy more difficult to achieve.

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“…More tellingly, more diverse workplace representatives often find it difficult to ensure their presence (Bennett, ; Briskin, ; Hunt and Haiven, ; Kirton, ; Moore, ; Yates, ). Sometimes, the established groups of delegates do not leave enough space for aspirations to modernise outdated and unsuitable models of representation; with consequences for intergenerational relations (Johnson and Jarley, ) or interracial or inter‐ethnic relations (Jefferys and Ouali, ; Tufts, ; Wrench, ). These divides can be seen in the same workshops or offices where temporary workers replace one another in succession alongside permanent employees, with both parties performing the same tasks (Béroud and Bouffartigues, ).…”

Section: Renewed Interest In the Context Of A Crisis Of Unionismmentioning

confidence: 99%