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- Title
Why Do Members Leave? The Importance of Retention to Trade Union Growth.
- Authors
Waddington, Jeremy
- Abstract
Drawing on survey results from three British trade unions, this paper examines why members leave trade unions. In this study, as anticipated, a great many members left their unions because of some change to their employment circumstances (they were made redundant, they changed employers, or they retired). A significant proportion left because they were dissatisfied with some aspect of union organization. The paper also demonstrates that the proportion of members leaving because of dissatisfaction varied according to a range of factors, including union "type" and sector of organization. The research implies that if unions are to reverse membership decline and promote retention, they must address a range of issues in addition to introducing new means of organizing and recruitment.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LABOR unions; LABOR union members; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; ORGANIZATION; LABOR leaders; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYEES; EMPLOYERS
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 3, p15
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lab.2006.0041