Trade unions advantage

The advantages include:

• they make negotiations easier because it would be costly to negotiate with individual workers.
• they make enforcing discipline easier since the procedures to be followed are clearly established.
• they help confine workers on equal terms.
• they help build a spirit of self reliance and self respect among the workers.
• they help maintain wages and salaries at a uniform level in terms of the actual economic value.
• they help to curb misuse and abuse of labour by inconsiderate management.
• they are beneficial to the organization in that they remove the worries of job security from employees who can then work assured that they have somebody guarding their interests.