1. Country presentation on migrant workers

2. Topics
Overall situation for migrant workers in Germany
EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
Cooperations
Success story of organizing

3. Overall situation for migrant workers
8% of the german population are migrants (≈ 6,4 million)
The net migration is at a historical very low lewel: each yaer people migrate from germany ( germans includet) and people migrate to germany ( germans included)
In generall: the reseaches on migrants are very unspecific: the specific dimension is the legal residence

4. Overall situation for migrant workers
Where do the migrants come from:
71,6 % = europeans
14,5 % = asians
3,8 % = africans
8,9 % = americans
Poland and Romania are the origin countries with the highest migration rate: 17,1% and 7,8%

5. Overall situation for migrant workers
Besides the millions of former migrants, which are more ore less integrated in german society, there are also the migrant workers (official data from ministry for migration and refugees BMAF):
posted workes
seasonal workers and
2.400 IT-workers

6. Overall situation for migrant workers
BMAF mentions also iregular migration between and 1 Million persons. But: beneath this official numbers, there is still the problem, that the real number of migrant workers is not documented.
F.e.: There must be hundred thousands of pseudo-self employt workers and undocumented workers living in Germany

7. Overall situation for migrant workers
Focus on posted-workers and pseudo-self employed workers in construction sector:
Posted Workers:
Minimal wages fraud (50% to 80%) = a generation of working poor is rising – the international mafia is developing

8. Overall situation for migrant workers
Social insurance contribution fraud (workers aren‘t documented as posted workers in their homeland) = impoverished elderly
Financial fraud (same reason) = no money for social infrastructure and investigation in employment market

9. Overall situation for migrant workers
Maximal and relative increasment in created added value by capital (surplus value) = bad or no employment protection
Pseudo self-employed workers:
Almost the same situation as for the pw + no insurances = no legal access to medical support and

10. Overall situation for migrant workers
„self-inflicted“ financial fraud = civil penalty and exclusion from the job market
Much more complicated to for them to win in an process, when they get not payed by their „employers“ (=human traffickers)

11. Topics
Overall situation for migrant workers in Germany
EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
Cooperations
Success story of organizing

12. EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
Long tradition in organizing migrant workers (50‘es)
IG BAU foundet EMWU as part of a project of a european trade union for migrant workers
From 2004 on EMWU organized more the migrant workers

13. EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
From 2009 on EMWU got a new constitution, EMWU is now a lobby for migrant workers interessts/questions
Together with IG BAU we still organize migrant workers and help them out, when they got any kind of trouble (vage problems, accidents, human trafficking, etc.)

14. EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
With the financial help of a foundation we execute an information program for migrant workers and supporter (shop councils)
We are also active in raising a bureau for free consultations together with the federation of german trade unions (DGB); part of an program finaced by the EU

15. EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
What we still can improve/do:
We are to few speakers of forein languages
We as european trade unions need to work more closely together, for we have do deal with the same problems and creat new methods (inclunding a „new speech“)

16. Topics
Overall situation for migrant workers in Germany
EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
Cooperations
Success story of organizing

17. Cooperations
We cooperate with a lot of diffrent organisations and institutions:
DGB, European Trade Unions (FGS and other Wood and Buildner Unions), Social pesnion fund, catholik „justitia et pax“, German Institute for Human Rights, Criminal Police and Financial Guards (= Custom office)

18. Topics
Overall situation for migrant workers in Germany
EMWU/IG BAU and migrant workers
Cooperations
Success story of organizing

19. Success story of organizing
Example EXACT BAU 2007
About 100 romanian workers, fought against more than four different general constructor and an local mobster, won the fight (got payed of) mobster went to prison, mass media pushed us alot in this case