Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions

Alberti, Gabriella; Però, Davide

doi:10.1111/bjir.12308

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“…Arguably, their onward spatio‐temporal perspective allowed them to develop resilience tactics in the short term with a view to reworking and even resistance over the longer term. Indeed, there is evidence of Latin Americans in London collectively organising in impressive ways around employment and migrant rights (Alberti and Peró ; McIlwaine and Bermudez ).…”

Section: Mapping Transnational Migration and Labour Precarity Among Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

McIlwaine

Bunge

2018

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Contributing to debates around the relationships between precarity, mobilities and migration, this paper examines the nature of precarity among onward Latin American (OLA) migrants as they have moved transnationally to multiple destinations from their homelands to southern Europe and onwards to London across different time periods. Drawing on primary research with over 400 OLAs, the discussion highlights how precarity maps onto onward migration trajectories in fractal rather than linear ways. In moving beyond a continuum approach to labour exploitation, the paper develops the concept of "onward precarity" to capture how migrants negotiate intersecting vulnerabilities in holistic spatio-temporal ways as they move through different structural contexts across the world from origin, through transition to their final destination country over time. These negotiations are underpinned by multiple agentic tactics that revolve around resilience and reworking strategies as onward migrants traverse wider structures of disadvantage in situ and through mobility in different places.Resumen: El presente art ıculo contribuye a entender la relaci on entre la precariedad, las movilidades y la migraci on, en la medida que examina la naturaleza de la precariedad de los reemigrantes latinoamericanos (OLAs, por sus siglas en ingl es) que se trasladaron transnacionalmente desde sus pa ıses de origen, hacia m ultiples destinos el sur de Europa y m as adelante a Londres. Con base en datos primarios recabados a partir de una encuesta con 400 OLAs, se observa c omo la precariedad se ve reflejada en las trayectorias de reemigraci on en forma fractal en lugar de lineal. M as que entender la explotaci on laboral desde la continuidad, el documento desarrolla el concepto de "precariedad progresiva" para explicar c omo los migrantes negocian sus diversas vulnerabilidades desde una perspectiva hol ıstica espaciotemporal, a medida que se mueven a trav es de diferentes contextos estructurales desde su origen, pasando por el pa ıs de tr ansito hasta el destino final. Estas negociaciones se sostienen con base a m ultiples t acticas que giran en torno a la resiliencia y otras estrategias de cambio, al tiempo que los reemigrantes atraviesan condiciones de desventaja in situ cada vez m as severas, fruto de su movilidad en diferentes lugares.

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Section: Mapping Transnational Migration and Labour Precarity Among Omentioning

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Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

McIlwaine

Bunge

2018

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“…We meet these challenges by embracing multidisciplinary approaches which call for detailed examinations of the cultural processes and web of relationships in which migrants participate (Alberti and Però 2018;Tapia and Alberti 2018). Migration and ethnic studies' contributions are essential to this project for their critique of 'methodological nationalism' (Amelina andFaist 2012: 1709-10).…”

Section: Labour Migrant Identities Consciousness and Solidaritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multiple inequalities can hamper unionization but it is migrants' own experiences and perceptions which ultimately affect mobilization. Empirical studies of successful organizing show how shared multiple intersections of class and ethnicity may sustain consciousness-raising and collective mobilization (Alberti and Però 2018). However, some comparative employment studies view these conclusions critically (Danaj et al 2018;Hardy 2015).…”

Section: Labour Migrant Identities Consciousness and Solidaritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent study exposes persistent limitations in unions’ and academic views of migrant experiences (Alberti and Però 2018: 4–6). Mainstream scholarship remains centred on formal institutions, focusing on fixed places and identities, in stark contrast with the spatially and experientially transient lives of migrant and temporary workers.…”

Section: Labour Migrant Identities Consciousness and Solidaritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration, Ethnicity and Solidarity: ‘Multinational Workers’ in the Former Soviet Union

Morrison

Sacchetto

Croucher

2020

Brit J Industrial Rel

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We investigate migrant construction workers' experiences in the Former Soviet Union, examining their attitudes to other ethno-national groups, unions and collective action. Industrial relations and migration studies view migrant workers hypermobility and diversity, under conditions of low union coverage and rising nationalism, as potentially obstructing consciousness raising and mobilizing. Workers participating in our study faced unions indifference, ethno-national segregation and discrimination. Managerial abuses, informality and contestation from below led to spontaneous mobilisation. Lack of institutional channels to solve these disputes drove them into further mobility. However, complex mobility trajectories and collective action translated into increased awareness of collective interests and rejection of nationalist ideologies. The outcome is a 'multinational worker' potentially resistant to nation-state politics and capital's logics but also aware of the values and usefulness of collective solidarities. Thus, previous arguments uniquely associating exit with individualistic attitudes, and post-socialist legacies with workers' quiescence present only partial pictures.

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“…Furthermore, the agreements consider social policy, such as employee recreation and transport, as well as continuous vocational training, and health and safety. Collective agreements usually also set principles for the cooperation of the contractual partners (Alberti & Pero, 2018).…”

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Operation and Action of a Trade Union (In Terms of Czech Republic Labour Law)

2018

Central European Journal of Labour Law and Personnel Management

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Social dialogue constitutes an important part in the process of shaping of social relationships. The importance of social dialogue comes to attention particularly in connection with working conditions for employees. They also have the right to establish different forms of employee representatives so that their economic, social and cultural interests can be promoted and protected with a higher level of dignity and with greater force. A trade union represents one of the fundamental employees' representatives recognized by law and it also has the right to bargain collectively. Collective bargaining leads to the conclusion of collective agreements that guarantee better working conditions for employees. The prerequisites for operation and action of a trade union within an undertaking differ according to national legislation. The presented article points out the terms and prerequisites of operation and action of a trade union within an undertaking in the scope of the Czech legal order. It brings to attention several application impacts of a trade union's fulfillment prerequisites of its operation and action, as well as the yet unresolved issue of plurality of trade unions.

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Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions

Cited by 87 publications

References 63 publications

Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

Migration, Ethnicity and Solidarity: ‘Multinational Workers’ in the Former Soviet Union

Operation and Action of a Trade Union (In Terms of Czech Republic Labour Law)

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