created to protect and advance the interests of its members through collective

action.” Over recent years, it has become fashionable in many quarters to

write off Britain’s trade unions, to label them as obsolete institutions out

of touch with new realities and incapable of change. In today’s world of

individual employment contracts, performance-related pay schemes, Human Resource

and Total Quality Management and all the other ingredients of the so-called

‘new’ workplace, trade unions are often regarded as anachronistic obstacles

preventing success of the market economy. As collective voluntary organizations

that represent employees in the workplace, it is argued, trade unions no longer

serve a useful purpose. The main priority of this essay is to represent the

arguments for and against the relevance of trade unions in todays working

society. Furthermore, I shall comment on the future of the trade union movement,

based upon the facts and findings that helped construct this text. Trade unions

exist because an individual worker has very little power to influence decisions

that are made about his or her job. The greatest advantage in j

representatives discuss with management, issues which affect people working in

organizations, unions are said to be recognised for collective bargaining

to management. Pay, working hours, holidays and changes to working practices are

based on the employee’s and employer’s point of view. Cases that go to

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