Trade Unions

Labor unions have been there for as long as one can remember. Workers joined labor unions to compel their employers to better their working conditions which were deplorable (Hay, 2010). Others joined these unions to be guaranteed better pay for the services they delivered. For any labor union to achieve its intended goal, it has to be assertive and competent (Hantke, 2009). In as much as it is very difficult for incompetent unions to achieve success, intelligent unions must also amass the required numbers to be able to competitively bargain for its members. The numbers count when negotiations fail and industrial action is the only bargaining tool that remains at the disposal of these unions. Labor unions are credited with myriad gains in the lives of working class some of which might not have been achieved had it not been for these unions. This essay explains why trade...
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