The ETUC believes in equal treatment for migrant workers, both in migrants’ own interest and to ensure that employers cannot abuse migrants’ often vulnerable situation so as to undercut the situation of national workers, in the form of social dumping.

Equal treatment must apply, not only in respect of terms and conditions of employment, but also to all areas of human rights, social security, housing and education.

In line with this, the ETUC Steering Committee endorses the position taken by the Swedish building workers’ union and the LO in relation to the Latvian company working on the renovation of a school near Stockholm.