Trade Union Challenge

Challenges Facing Trade Unions in the Modern Society

To many, trade unionism may sound outdated, irrelevant and maybe a subject that would be told in a history class. On the contrary, the academic literature related to trade unions have significantly increased in economics, political and social related studies. It is a fact that individualism plays a significant role in the modern society. Moreover, the society today is calling for innovations in start-ups and entrepreneurship, which are more related to self-employment. But, we must be ignorant to assume that unionism is irrelevant, putting into realistic that almost seven out of ten working people we know, work in a firm, company or in an organisation. In addition, we cannot assume that we’ll all venture into our own business in future

In the modern world, people form groups “unionise” in Facebook, Twitter and other social media, to share ideas and information with a certain group of people. Sense of belonging is a natural human feeling. As Abraham Maslow describes it in the ‘hierarchy of needs’ “Humans need to feel a sense of belonging regardless of whether these groups are large or small or are formed with family, friends or at workplaces.

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