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How unions react to immigrants differs over time and space. The rise of trade unions in the nineteenth century coincided with the blooming of the nation state, colonialism, imperialism, and the rise of nativism. This explains the outright negative and dismissive attitude towards immigrants of many unions in the North Atlantic and Oceania. Nor are such practices of exclusion and discrimination limited to Europeans, or to the distant past. The current segregation and discriminatory treatment of foreign workers in Japan, Russia, the Gulf states and South-Africa, to name a few labour-importing regions, are a case in point. In recent decades, however, migrant workers have increasingly been treated as (co-)workers instead of competitors. In this respect, the ‘Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights’ (SIGTUR) is of interest, as it unites (left-wing) unions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India, the Philippines, South Africa, and South Korea in order to coordinate collective actions and calls for anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and empathetic internationalism.
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