Denmark: young people at the center of the recruitment policies of unions increasing their membership

While many LO historical unions are busy combating their member hemorrhage (see our dispatch No.  110301), many AC unions show historical recruitment scores, sporting a constantly increasing unionization rate.  The Union of Jurists and Economists, Dansk Jurist go Økonomforbund (DJØF) doubled in size in ten years, from 36,000 members in 2000 to over 72,000 in January 2011.  Likewise, the Ingeniørforeningens engineers’ union went from 60,000 members in 2004 to over 83,000 today.
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y AC unions show historical recruitment scores, sporting a constantly increasing unionization rate. The Union of Jurists and Economists, Dansk Jurist go Økonomforbund (DJØF) doubled in size in ten years, from 36,000 members in 2000 to over 72,000 in January 2011. Likewise, the Ingeniørforeningens engineers’ union went from 60,000 members in 2004 to over 83,000 today.

Exemplary recruitment policy. Unions surveyed told the Berlingske Tidende daily last week that the key reason to this success w

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