Answer to Question #211490 in Management for asa

Question

Membership of the largest federation of trade unions, COSATU, has declined by 400 000 over the past few years. Discuss five main reasons why you think this might be happening

Answer 1

1. Nationalization and global competitiveness in previously unionized businesses. ...
2. Changes in the economy and worker demographics in South Africa.
3. Traditional union roles are being supplanted by federal employment law.
4. Today's workers are less likely to join a union.

Explanation

The years leading up to democracy and the establishment of the new dispensation faced the union federation with fresh challenges. The federation, no longer an adversary of the state, would undergo numerous alterations in order to deal with new realities. With the certainty that they would soon see the disintegration of the rules they had counted on to extort cheap labour from an unprotected workforce, businesses too had to adapt to a new regime.