The latest figures on Trade Union membership released at the end of April were sobering reading for trade unionists and the wider labour and progressive movement. Amongst other things, the figures revealed that the impact of the government’s cuts programme on trade union membership is becoming apparent. In a year when the size of public sector workforce shrank by over 250,000, union membership in the sector fell by 180,000. Overall density, that is the proportion of employees who are members [...]
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