Denmark: unions mobilised to face problems caused by the increase of East European workers

Increase in industrial accidents, risk of social dumping and of deregulation of the labour market: the problems caused by the important immigration of workers from countries east to Denmark worry Danish unions. (Ref. 070977)
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According to a recent report from the FAOS, the research center on the labour market at the Copenhagen University, between 2004 and September 2007, 32.000 work permits would have been granted to citizens from the East, whereas 11.000 eastern European workers would be posted in the country. To those can be added the unknown number of illegal workers.

More serious and deadly accidents. According to Palle Larsen, 3F advisor responsible for working environment, “authorities and employers were not we

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