An
Unconventional Brotherhood:
Union Support for Liberalized Immigration in Europe
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Julie
R. Watts (European Union Center, Scripps College)
CCIS Monograph No. 1, 2000
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Julie
Watts's research has turned conventional wisdom -- that organized
labor opposes immigration for fear that foreign workers will
undercut the wages and working conditions of native workers
-- on its head. Her examination of labor unions in Italy, Spain,
and France reveals that labor leaders actually prefer more open
immigration policies. In an era of globalization, restrictive
immigration policies that were originally designed to protect
native workers can now produce the opposite result. Paradoxically,
by forcing immigrants into a precarious legal and economic position,
such policies can undercut the improvements in wages and working
conditions that native workers were able to achieve as a consequence
of shutting out foreign workers. Unions' growing support for
more liberalized immigration policies have brought labor leaders
into the political arena, where they engage in a variety of
activities to influence their nations' policy making on immigration.
In some cases, organized labor has also moved to provide essential
support services to immigrants that their governments are unwilling
or unable to provide. Watts's study has broad implications for
labor-importing countries around the world, including the United
States, where the labor movement is actively reassessing its
positions on immigration control and amnesty for indocumented
immigrants.
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