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ETUI working paper entitled: Following the 'organising model' of British unions? Organising non-standard workers in Germany and the Netherlands." by Kurt Vandaele and Janine Leschke.



Over the last three decades trade unions in almost all European countries have been losing members. In particular nonstandard workers (part-time employed, temporary employed and own- account self-employed) are currently less likely than those on standard contracts to be organised in unions. A recently published paper by the ETUI has a twofold purpose. A first objective is to provide a survey of the initiatives developed by trade unions in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK for organising non-standard workers. A second objective is to assess whether, and to what extent, the Dutch and German unions are influenced by British union practices for recruiting new members and among them nonstandard workers.



To see the full report :

http://www.etui.org/research/activities/Employment-and-social-policies/Reports-and-working-papers/WP-2010.02