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Contemporary Issues in Trade Unions

Trade unions in the past had much control over organizations, by controlling working hours and overtime pay rates of employees. But with the advancement in technologies, due to these limitations as well as others, companies decided to outsource costly manufacturing activities to developing countries. Therefore, impact of trade unions in modern day world is increasing becoming ineffective.
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Trade Unions Loss in Ground


Due to focus only on general issues and not in individualized issues, as well as neglecting the poor, trade unions have lost ground in terms moral of employees to join. Also corporations have taken advantage of loss of trade unions in political background, by capitalizing on the importance of employing non-unionized employees to control or govern over both unionized and non-unionized employees.

Reluctance of Members


According to Dixon (2017) number of wage and salaried workers belonging to unions have dropped from about 20 percent in 1983 to 11 percent in 2014. She has summarized that it is mainly due to employees seeing better opportunities with engaging with management rather than with unions. Most employees nowadays are seeking flexible working hours and better pays, both of which cannot be provided by unions. Whereas unions see a ceiling for pay or wages, direct dealings with management brings about better pays. Also modern reward compensation schemes discourage this further.


References

  • 24sevenwriters, 2015. Contemporary Issues in Trade Unions and Employee Relations. [Online] Available at: https://lastfreelance.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/contemporary-issues-in-trade-unions-and-employee-relations/ [Accessed 2 July 2018].
  • Dixon, L., 2017. How Do Unions Fit in the Modern Working World?. [Online] Available at: number of wage and salaried workers belonging to a union dropping from about 20 percent in 1983 to 11 percent in 2014 [Accessed 2 July 2018].

  • Kelly, G., 2017. Trade unions — adapt to the modern world or die. [Online] Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/f65a8510-4626-11e7-8d27-59b4dd6296b8 [Accessed 2 July 2018].

Comments

  1. M.S.F.Safra5 July 2018 at 13:55

    Good one.., trade unions has been seen as a headache for any company.. It should change...but now it has revolved as a voice of employee...

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  2. Unknown6 July 2018 at 08:41

    Good article lahiru but pay your attention on referencing style..

    ReplyDelete
  3. Unknown6 July 2018 at 09:57

    Good article, keep it up..

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