150 years of the Trades Union Congress – reflections on the past and challenges for the future
ISSN: 0142-5455
Article publication date: 8 February 2019
Issue publication date: 8 February 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to look back on 150 years of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and reflect on the recent challenges to organised labour.
Design/methodology/approach
Places unions in their current context and discusses how they have responded to the challenge of declining membership.
Findings
With declining membership levels and the lack of a “silver bullet” solution, unions continue to face many challenges, although there is some light at the end of the organising tunnel.
Originality/value
This paper introduces the special issue which reflects on 150 years of the TUC.
Keywords
Citation
Nowak, P. and Hodder, A. (2019), "150 years of the Trades Union Congress – reflections on the past and challenges for the future", Employee Relations, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 270-278. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-12-2018-0323
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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