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They keep the economy ticking over, so seasonal workers should be vaccinated too columns The Dutch horticultural industry employs tens of thousands of seasonal workers. Photo: DutchNews.nl The hundreds of thousands of Polish and eastern European workers in the Netherlands are taken for granted by Dutch companies and consumers. Now the coronavirus vaccination programme is providing yet another illustration of how vulnerable they actually are, writes Malgorzata Bos-Karczewska. We know them by their official name of ‘EU migrant labourers’ or by the more neutral ‘international workers’. But we don’t really want to know the specifics. As long as they’re flexible and cheap, companies, job agencies and consumers are happy. Everyone, except the unions, are fine with how things are. ....