Labour Movements

Labour Movements- By Liv

The topic of labour movements is something I personally find quite interesting. At first I stared at this topic blankly thinking about what I knew, then I realized that we are currently in the midst of a major labour movement- however this one isn’t leading to better conditions for employees it has been more detrimental to people and their professions in the past year especially.  

I then thought, how are trade unions linked with this movement? BBC claims that union membership has taken a massive decline from when it was at its highest (post world- war) to now. When I look at the economy at what it is currently I see many people being offered redundancies as their positions are now unneeded or companies can no longer afford to employ these people. This for obvious reasons has an effect on the density of union membership as jobs that used to be covered by unions are no longer there = less union membership. 

In my current job I have seen a rise in technology and competitors have a major effect on the success of the company, I know that this doesn’t really describe labour movements, but it does describe the way that changes to our workforce is resulting in a decline of union membership.