Trade unions, refugees and immigrant labour: Has the attitude changed? The stance of Swedish blue-collar trade unions as evidenced by sentiment analysis

IF 1.6 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI:10.1111/irj.12424
Aliaksei Kazlou, Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg
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The attitude of trade unions towards migration and migrants, be it of asylum seekers or those in search of jobs and better incomes, differs substantially across European countries. No matter the original stance, a common current pattern is that of the willingness to accept migrants being eroded over time. To see whether this is the case also in a country that both proved welcoming to labour migrants and refugees during the opening decades of the new millennium, we set out to explore the attitudes of blue-collar trade unions in Sweden. Based on a diverse set of material issuing from the unions themselves, we use sentiment analysis to assess whether there are any changes to be discerned in the opinions of the representatives of 12 blue-collar trade unions and their national confederation. At its most general, the trend appears to turn more negative over time, yet the influence of defining events and legal changes is not so easily observed at the aggregate level. The union representing workers in the industry with the largest proportion of immigrant labour, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union, is therefore selected for closer analysis. To the extent that changes can, or cannot, be observed, we relate those to major events and policy changes that have taken place over the 2010s.

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工会、难民和移民劳工:态度转变了吗?情绪分析显示的瑞典蓝领工会的立场
无论是寻求庇护者还是寻找工作和提高收入者,欧洲各国工会对移民和移徙者的态度大相径庭。无论最初的立场如何,目前的一个共同模式是接受移民的意愿随着时间的推移而减弱。在新千年的最初几十年里,瑞典曾对移民劳工和难民持欢迎态度,为了了解这个国家是否也存在这种情况,我们开始探讨瑞典蓝领工会的态度。根据从工会本身获得的各种材料,我们使用情感分析法来评估 12 个蓝领工会及其全国联合会的代表的观点是否发生了变化。从最普遍的情况来看,随着时间的推移,趋势似乎变得更加消极,然而,在总体层面上,定义事件和法律变化的影响并不那么容易观察到。因此,我们选择了代表移民劳工比例最大的行业工人的工会,即酒店和餐馆工人工会,进行更深入的分析。在可以或无法观察到变化的情况下,我们将这些变化与 2010 年代发生的重大事件和政策变化联系起来。
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