PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE UNIONS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SYSTEM OF REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of determining promising directions of trade union development in the conditions of transformation of the system of regulation of social and labor relations. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the functioning of the trade union movement in Ukraine and the world are analyzed. Modern tendencies of transformational processes in the sphere of social and labor relations are revealed. In high-income countries, social and labor relations have become more diverse and range from permanent or stable formal employment to various non-standard forms, including part-time employment, fixed-term employment, borrowed labor, call work and various forms of self-employment. The growth of adaptability and diversity has also led to changes in the organization of working time, the spread of mobile models of employment and remote work. Under some of these new forms of labor organization, workers become autonomous, independent, or self-employed, placed on temporary employment agencies, seconded to other countries on a temporary contract, or transferred from large enterprises to smaller, less stable suppliers. It is determined that the scenarios of the future trade union movement can be realized in various combinations and forms of manifestation. The actions of trade unions can differ dramatically even in the same countries, but in different sectors (public and private sector; industry and services, among employees and the self-employed; in the alternative economy and in the field of remote platforms) and occur in different combinations: dualism as a means to prevent marginalization; substitution as a reason and source of inspiration for the renewal process; renewal as “overcoming the boundaries” of dualization. Therefore it is necessary to change not the purposes, and means of their achievement.