... organize and represent their interests both in the workplace & in society...to regulate the employment relationship thru collective bargaining with management" The aims of Trade Unions include, improving the working conditions and experience of its members, negotiation of remuneration e.g. pay, benefits and pension schemes, dealing with contracts of employment, health & safety at work, training, job security amongst other issues which include pressure groups against government and discrimination. The decline of union membership has many causes such as changes in the economy that have led to fewer male industrial unskilled workers and the fall off of the manufacturing sector has also contributed. In the last two decades the trade union movement has declined by more than half and that decline accelerated in the l990s. From a peak of nearly 14 million members in l970s, the TUC now only represents less than 7 million workers, one in four of the ...

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