Labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions & migration in the EU

The paper discusses the interactions between trade unions and migrants in the case of intra-EU migration following the EU enlargement eastwards. Against representations of unions as insiders ’ exclusionary organisations, it will point at the rich evidence of co-operation within unions and migrants. In the case of the EU, it is argued, unions have particular incentives to organise migrants rather than oppose them. However, the role of unions is much more difficult in the case of movement of services