CEP News: The Telegraph: How the trade unions? Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace

The Telegraph:
How the trade unions? Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace

21 September 2019

Prof Stephen Machin at the London School of Economics says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplaces. It is the unions not being organised in the kind of new workplaces that have come about. They are in declining sectors."
Despite their waning influence in the labour market, the battle lines between unions and business remain largely unchanged.

The Telegraph:How the trade unions? Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace

The Telegraph:
How the trade unions? Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace