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2012

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Trade Unions

Trade unions were developed in the 19th century by workers who joined together to try to improve their working conditions and to demand higher wages. Those trade unions gave unhappy workers more power to demand better conditions and higher salaries from their employers.

Today the trade unions advice the unsatisfied workers and they give them information and help to eliminate their problems. They also pay attention on the health and the safety on the employee’s workplace. Today’s trade unions also fight for equal rights and an equal payment for women and men.

Furthermore, they support employees in discrimination cases. They also offer many services like credit cards, special discounts and good insurance deals and also further opportunities for education and training to the needy workers.

At first glance,that sounds good. But nevertheless those trade unions are very controversial. Some people say that trade unions sometimes make things worse. Other people, who are proponents of trade unions, say that when many workers fight together, they can achieve more than just one worker alone.

Another reason why people say that joining a trade union is nonsensical is that it might be a problem if you apply for a job, because when your employee sees that you are a member of a trade union he thinks that you are a “rebel”. One more aspect is that trade unions cannot keep the individual problems in mind, because the wages of each worker are different, so that there is no flexibility.

The most employers are also against trade unions, because if there would not be any trade union, they could do whatever they want.

To conclude, we can say can say that we still need trade unions today, because in some cases trade unions are very helpful. Everyone should decide himself if he joins a trade union or not, because for some workers it makes more sense to join a trade union than for other workers.

Everybody should have the right to join a trade union but it should not be necessary.


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