Despite the presence of hyper-mobile migrant workers in the European Union, there is very little research on transnational union organizing efforts.i This paper examines the European Migrant Workers Union (EMWU), which signalled a shift by the German union Industriegewerkschaft...

At no other firm has transnational worker cooperation been taken further than at General Motors Europe. Worker representatives engaged in European wide mobilization, strikes, and collective bargaining, with the aim of “sharing the pain” of concessions and preventing plant closures. We argue...