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This paper looks at the decline of trade unions in the United Kingdom and the historical perceptions of trade unions from both employer and employee perspectives. Collective bargaining, the primary function of trade unions, is also looked at in terms of its ability to negotiate pay and benefits, in terms of the approach known as "mature collective bargaining", and at some of the legal issues surrounding collective bargaining. Also considered is the present comeback of trade unions underway in the UK.

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"Since the last two decades, British trade unions have been on slippery ground, straddled with the serious problems of declining membership, recognition and influence. In 1975, Jack Jones, the leader of the Transport and General Workers? Union emerged as the most powerful man in Britain in opinion polls. (McIlroy, 1995, p.44). It is now believed that unions have lost influence both in the workplace as well in the political sphere, which has impeded the unions? organizational capacity as a whole."

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