Lesson Starter

• Explain, in detail, some of the benefits of joining a trade union.

One benefit of joining a union is that union members tend to get paid higher than people who are not in a union. The average pay for someone in a union is £14 per hour whilst for non-union members it is £12 in Britain today. Therefore in the current recession it is perhaps better to be in a union as you would get paid higher.

HINT

• This stands for:

• Heading• Information• Number• Trend

HINT

• Thinking about tables and graphs in this way will make reading them easier

• You’ll be able to complete ES questions more quickly

Trade Union Trends

• You will be shown a series of sources with information about TUs

• Your task is to write down the TREND you notice in each one (like a conclusion)

• If there is no noticeable trend then write down an interesting piece of information from the source

National Trends, 2010

• Trade union membership levels for UK employees fell by 2.7 per cent between 2009 and 2010.

• Currently 6.5 million union members in UK• More women than men in trade unions• 29.4% of female workers unionised, only

23.8% of men• Employees of a UK nationality have higher

union membership of 27.2% compared with non UK nationals whose union membership is 21.3%.

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Changes by Region• Of the four nations, union membership in 2010

rose in Scotland by 0.5% to 32.3% compared to 2009, but fell in all other nations by 0.9% each in England (to 25.2%) and Wales (34.%), and by 4.2% in Northern Ireland to 35.%

• Amongst the English regions, union membership fell in all regions with the North East recording the largest fall in union membership of 7.4% over the decade whilst the East of England had the smallest fall of 1.0%

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Pay of Union Members

• The average hourly earnings of union members was £14.00 in 2010, 16.7% more than the earnings of non-members (£12.00 per hour).

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• https://www.gov.uk/working-with-trade-unions/overview