Yes, well, but if they have arrived here and live here, then they must understand something…. If they have worked in the sector in their country, then they know what a helmet is, a safety net, an instrument, these are simple things.
A Spanish H&S officer comments that H&S training in such conditions may even have contrary effects on foreign workers. The limited awareness of these problems among Spanish unionists suggests that their strong class orientation results in neglecting some specific needs migrant workers may have (Martinez Lucio and Connolly, 2012 ).
A further H&S implication is the domino effect on the countries of origin. Polish construction unionists remember that after massive emigration of skilled construction sector workers started during the recession of 2001 (at that time, mostly towards Germany), the overall skill level, and therefore risk awareness, on Polish building sites declined, a process later magnified by the replacement with migrants from the Ukraine and other eastern countries.
Union Responses
Unions could in theory choose to accommodate segmentation, to protect the national workforce, or oppose it to avoid downwards competition on employment conditions. Actual union policies, though, are strongly influenced by different institutional contexts.
Since the democratic transition of the late 1970s, Spanish unionism has combined very low membership levels with political involvement and institutional representation rights in workplaces. Strong ideological internationalism plays against any exclusionary discourse. Faced with the worse alternative of the
Yes, well, but if they have arrived here and live here, then they must understand something…. If they have worked in the sector in their country, then they know what a helmet is, a safety net, an instrument, these are simple things.
A Spanish H&S officer comments that H&S training in such conditions may even have contrary effects on foreign workers. The limited awareness of these problems among Spanish unionists suggests that their strong class orientation results in neglecting some specific needs migrant workers may have (Martinez Lucio and Connolly, 2012 ).
A further H&S implication is the domino effect on the countries of origin. Polish construction unionists remember that after massive emigration of skilled construction sector workers started during the recession of 2001 (at that time, mostly towards Germany), the overall skill level, and therefore risk awareness, on Polish building sites declined, a process later magnified by the replacement with migrants from the Ukraine and other eastern countries.
Union Responses
Unions could in theory choose to accommodate segmentation, to protect the national workforce, or oppose it to avoid downwards competition on employment conditions. Actual union policies, though, are strongly influenced by different institutional contexts.
Since the democratic transition of the late 1970s, Spanish unionism has combined very low membership levels with political involvement and institutional representation rights in workplaces. Strong ideological internationalism plays against any exclusionary discourse. Faced with the worse alternative of the
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