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Is migration from Central and Eastern Europe an opportunity for trade unions to demand higher wages? Evidence from the Romanian health sector
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Date Issued
2016-06-01
Date Available
2015-11-10T14:36:46Z
Abstract
Industrial relations scholars have argued that east-west labour migration may benefit trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe. By focusing on the distributional aspect of wage policies adopted by two competing Romanian trade unions in the healthcare sector, this article challenges the assumption of a virtuous link between migration, labour shortages and collective wage increases. We show that migration may also displace collective and egalitarian wage policies in favour of individual and marketized ones that put workers in competition with one another. Thus, the question is not so much whether migration leads to wage increases in sending countries, but whether trade unions' wage demands in response to outward migration consolidate collective solidarity and coordination in wage policy-making or support its individualization and commodification.
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Centre for Advanced Study at Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Sage Publications
Journal
European Journal of Industrial Relations
Issue
2
Start Page
167
End Page
183
Copyright (Published Version)
2015 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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