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During the 1980s and 1990s the trade union movement under successive Conservative Governments experienced greatly reduced membership, reduced influence with Government and in society generally, and greatly reduced bargaining power vis-à-vis employers. The environment in which unions had to operate was the crucial cause of their problems, although this is not to say that there were not deficiencies in union organisation, policies and behaviour which contributed.
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© 1998 Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss
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Kessler, S., Bayliss, F. (1998). Trade unions. In: Contemporary British Industrial Relations. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14805-9_8
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