How difficult is it to organise contract or agency workers into your existing union structures?
This is exactly the third strategy. We are very pro-active in organising agency workers or so-called subcontractors into our existing unions. We approach these workers inside their companies and on building sites. The problem we encounter is that contract workers of a specific company might be spread out widely over a geographic area, and oftentimes they switch between company to company, so the problem of reaching them is hard. In the near future, we will keep taking employers who attempt to avoid their responsibilities to labour court; we will continue to organise contract and agency workers; and where we can, and we encourage more unions in Denmark to actively organise these workers as well. Until now, we are the only union in Denmark to do so. But we hope that more unions in Denmark will join us. Peru Enacts New Contract Labour Law Assuring Rights On 28 May, 2008, Peru’s National Assembly passed an outsourcing law, giving full labour rights to contract workers. On 23 June, Presiden
