The Positive Impacts of Labor Unions

Have you thought about what kind of life it is if the union has never existed? Trade unions were originally established to raise workers' low wages, poor working conditions and help them reduce the time they work everyday. "The power of the union is strong, the union members act together, contact the weapons, symbolically and literally take the position, and force them to apply their agenda to their employers or political representatives" Asher 650). If everyone collaborates, the alliance will become stronger, and if something goes wrong, the whole organization will fail.

Trade unions began to be formed in the mid-nineteenth century to cope with the social and economic impacts of the industrial revolution. Domestic labor unions began to be formed after the war. The Labor Order was an important force in the late 1880s but collapsed due to poor organizational power, lack of effective leadership, differences in goals, and strong opposition from employers and government forces did. The American labor union was founded in 1886 and was led by Samuel Gompers until the death of 1924. It began with a loose alliance of trade unions in various places. It helps to adjust and support strikes, and eventually it will become a major player of the national politics, usually Democrats.

War held a status of expanded state bureaucracy and gave a special opportunity to workers to fight the government to reward the prewar workers leaders who supported collective bargaining and trade unions . When the wartime labor shortage worsened the negotiations between workers and labor unions, trade union growth also reflected the economic situation. The labor union developed rapidly after the war and after the war. For example, the British union doubled the number of members between 1914 and 1920 and registered 8 million workers, almost half of non-agricultural labor force (Bain and Price, 1980; Visser, 1989). The number of members in Germany and Sweden tripled, the number of members in Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway doubled, almost doubling (see Table 5 and Table 1). In the twelve countries, member countries increased by 121% between 1913 and 1920, 7 battle countries increased by 119%, and 5 neutral countries increased 160%.