“International solidarity” has been among the most long-standing demands of the working-class movement. At the same time, it is hard to meet, since the differences as well as the competition between wage-earners, which are unavoidable under...
Posting involves the sending of employees to other EU member states to provide temporary services. Posted workers are often confronted with precarious working conditions or even labour exploitation. As they are only in the host countries for a short...
The debate over the European minimum wage directive led to conflict between the Danish and Swedish trade unions on the one hand and the rest of those represented in the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on the other. The article traces the...
This article is based on a new database of transnational socio-economic protests in Europe from 1997 to 2020, which the authors compiled based on trade union-related newsletters, websites, and specialised media. During this period, the number of...
The Arbeitskreis Internationale Solidarität “AK InterSoli” (Working Group International Solidarity) represents a largely blind spot in the research on labour politics in the Volkswagen Group. Based on the findings of an empirical research...