Dealing with EmployeeManagement Issues and Relationships Lat

Dealing with Employee-Management Issues and Relationships

Lately, unions are facing a decrease in membership. Giving the current and the future economic trends, what do you think will be the future of unions? Do you consider joining one? Why or why not? Given their historical initial purpose, are they relevant in modern society? How is the current economic climate affecting workers\' interest in Unions?

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unions are loosing their popularity in now a days. there will be many reasons for this, but the main one is they are failing to fulfill the needs and erquirements of the employees. instead of serving the employee community, those are serving one kind of people and one specific community is benefiting with it. the main reasons for declining unionism are:

Unions often seem irrelevant. In good times, workers don’t need unions to secure increases in wages and benefits because everybody profits from economic prosperity. In bad times, unions can’t protect their members from layoffs, wage and benefit reductions and tougher working conditions.

Unions have a poor public image as being bloated, inefficient and often downright corrupt.

Workers are often “out of sync” with union politics. The labor movement is perceived as being a vassal the Democratic Party and a champion of liberal causes.

Most Americans now turn to government, not unions, for basic protections. Workers rely on the government for pensions, healthcare, protection against discrimination and a whole variety of other benefits that were formerly provided exclusively by unions.