Trade union inclusion of migrant and ethnic minority workers: Comparing Italy and the Netherlands

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Marino
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Minority Workers

Trade Unions and Immigration in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Heather Connolly ◽  
Stefania Marino ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Minority Workers

This chapter focuses on trade union strategies to represent immigrant and ethnic minority workers in the Netherlands. Since the early 1990s, trade unions in the Netherlands countries started developing policies to better represent the rights of immigrant and ethnic minority workers. Trade unions focused on the labour market inclusion of ethnic minority workers by promoting and supporting initiatives related to education and training, and measures aimed at fighting labour market discriminations. These initiatives were mainly developed through tripartite and bipartite negotiations within an industrial relations system characterised by a strong tradition of social dialogue which also guaranteed a high degree of institutional embeddedness in trade unions. According to the analytical framework presented in Chapter 1, the dominant logic of action of Dutch trade unions was between race/ethnicity and social rights.

Ethnic Minorities and Equal Treatment: The Impact of Gender, Equal Opportunities Policies and Trade Unions

2001 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Noon ◽  
Kim Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
The Impact

The article examines whether ethnic minority employees report poorer treatment at work than white employees, and evaluates the impact of three key features — gender differences, formal equal opportunities policies and trade union recognition. The analysis reveals that ethnic minority men and women receive poorer treatment than their white counterparts. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that ethnic minority women receive poorer treatment than ethnic minority men. Equal opportunities policies are effective in ensuring equal treatment, but the presence of a recognised trade union is not. White men and women in unionised workplaces enjoy better treatment than their white counterparts in non-union workplaces, but the same is not true for ethnic minorities. By contrast, there is very little evidence of unequal treatment in non-union workplaces.

Baanonzekerheid als schending van het psychologisch contract bij vakbondsleden: gevolgen voor vakbondsattitudes en opzegintentie in België en Nederland

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans De Witte ◽  
Sjoerd Goslinga ◽  
Antonio Chirumbolo ◽  
Johnny Hellgren ◽  
Katharina Näswall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Union Commitment ◽  
Union Support ◽  
Psychological Contract Theory

Job insecurity as violation of the psychological contract among trade union members: consequences on attitudes towards unions and the intention to resign membership in Belgium and the Netherlands Job insecurity as violation of the psychological contract among trade union members: consequences on attitudes towards unions and the intention to resign membership in Belgium and the Netherlands Hans De Witte, Sjoerd Goslinga, Antonio Chirumbolo, Johnny Hellgren, Katharina Näswall & Magnus Sverke, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 18, February 2005, nr. 1, pp. 1-20 In this article the consequences of job insecurity among union members are explored. Having established that most employees have instrumental motives for joining a union, and using psychological contract theory, we hypothesize that job insecurity among union members correlates with a lower level of perceived union support, lower satisfaction with the union, reduced (affective) commitment towards the union, and a higher intention to resign union membership. These hypotheses were tested in Belgium and the Netherlands. Evidence was found to support the assumed association between job insecurity and a reduction in perceived union support. In Belgium, job insecurity was also associated with reduced union satisfaction and intention to resign membership. In neither country job insecurity was associated with union commitment. These results partly support the hypothesis that union members experience job insecurity as a violation of their psychological contract with the union.

‘Apprentice Entrepreneurs’? Ethnic Minority Workers in the Independent Restaurant Sector

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-372
Author(s):  
Monder Ram ◽  
Tahir Abbas ◽  
Balihar Sanghera ◽  
Gerald Barlow ◽  
Trevor Jones
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Workers

scholarly journals A Comparison of Excessive Drinking, Binge Drinking and Alcohol Dependence in Ethnic Minority Groups in the Netherlands: The HELIUS Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
Jan G.C. van Amsterdam ◽  
Annemieke Benschop ◽  
Simone van Binnendijk ◽  
Marieke B. Snijder ◽  
Anja Lok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Excessive Drinking ◽  
Helius Study

scholarly journals The Association of Ethnic Minority Density with Late Entry into Antenatal Care in the Netherlands

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. e0122720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke G. Posthumus ◽  
Vera L. N. Schölmerich ◽  
Eric A. P. Steegers ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi ◽  
Semiha Denktaş
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Antenatal Care ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Late Entry

The Politics of Trade Union Formation in the Java Sugar Industry, 1945–1949

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Revolution

Comparatively little of a scholarly nature has been written about Indonesian trade unions, particularly on the two decades from 1945 to 1965 when, like the political parties to which so many of them were affiliated, the unions had their heyday. This paper focuses on the development of trade unions in one specific industry: refined sugar production. The period to be examined—1945 to 1949—runs from the proclamation of Indonesian independence by Sukarno and Hatta, through the revolution fought against the returning Dutch, to December 1949 when the Netherlands finally acknowledged Indonesian independence. It was during this period that the major post-war sugar industry unions were established. The circumstances surrounding the establishment of these unions will be examined, along with their leaders and members, ideological leanings and political and industrial objectives.

Efficacy of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old ethnic minority children in the Netherlands

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy van Tuijl ◽  
Paul P.M. Leseman ◽  
Jan Rispens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Home Based

This paper reports the results of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk of educational failure. The programme, Opstap Opnieuw (“Step-up Anew”), was developed in the Netherlands as an alternative to the well-known HIPPY-programme, of which a Dutch version was carried out in the early 1990s for ethnic minority groups, without apparent success. Building on the basic intervention strategy of HIPPY (i.e., involving mothers and paraprofessional aides), a new curriculum was developed based on recent theoretical insights in cognitive and language development, and emergent literacy and numeracy. The programme was carried out with Turkish and Moroccan immigrant families. For the Turkish group, the results were partly positive: There were modest effects of the programme on cognitive development and emergent numeracy, small effects on Turkish language development, but no effects on Dutch language development. In contrast, for the Moroccan group the effects were disappointing. The results are evaluated with respect to recent insights into effective strategies and essential ingredients of early educational intervention programmes.

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