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Unions fight to secure better pay and conditions for workers, but they can also benefit employers

Written by Emma Sara Hughes, Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Liverpool

Employees and their organisations can gain from union membership, research shows.SFIO CRACHO/Shutterstock

Over the past century, unions have successfully campaigned for a minimum wage, holiday and sickness pay, equal opportunity rights, maternity and paternity rights and a two-day weekend for British workers, among other benefits.

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