"Trade unions are committed to anti-racism. However, with the growth of job insecurityin the increasingly inegalitarian but global economies that are sucking in newgenerations of international migrants, racism and xenophobia have re-emerged asmajor threats to European social cohesion. This article examines the problemsunions have in fighting racism within the workplace. It documents different ways inwhich these problems present themselves, and suggests that they offer trade unionstwo structural-ideological challenges: the need to defend broader, societal tradeunion objectives, alongside bread and butter ones; and the need to strengthen thelegitimacy of trade union activists acting within ‘representative democratic' ratherthan ‘delegate democratic' traditions."

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