My Union, My Voice.

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Yet these workers are often the most vulnerable, facing problems of low pay, poor access to decent training and apprenticeships, exploitative internships, and diffi culties in the housing market. Unions can help with all these issues.

Sometimes there is no union to join where young people are working. But many just don’t see the connection between the jobs they do, the problems they face, and the support a trade union can offer. So we must reach out to workers in sectors where union presence is limited; and where there is none we must demonstrate our relevance to young workers. That means showing a face of trade unionism to which young workers can relate.

Inspiring stories from young union reps. 

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The future of work: Trade unions in transformation

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The decline in unionization rates across the world

That unions need to revitalize themselves and reach out beyond their present constituency in order to stay relevant is beyond doubt. In both industrialized and developing countries, trade unions struggle to expand beyond the narrowing minority of workers in declining industries, large firms and the public sector. In the industrialized countries union membership is ageing; in low-income and developing countries trade unions have contracted with the decline in formal employment. Lacking or weak representation of young people, of workers with temporary employment contracts, of women in some countries, and of freelance and own-account workers, whether correctly or falsely classified like those in the gig economy, weakens the future growth of trade unions, narrows their agenda and erodes their legitimacy in collective bargaining and social dialogue.

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Informal economy:Future of trade union

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Presenting best practice and case studies from trade unions worldwide, Organizing Informal Economy Workers into Trade Unions seeks to improve the technical knowledge and skills of union leaders, educators, organizers and representatives of organizations of informal economy workers on the need for formalizing the informal economy.

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