"This article is based on the assumption that trade unions have not gone beyond their social role in protecting workers' rights and interests. Thus, in the transition from state and public property to private, unions have been pushed aside from their main role at a very critical moment in the interests of workers: unions' occasional involvement has only, in the post-privatisation period, been through the compilation and adoption of lists of redundant employees. The world economic crisis continues to deepen and has led to problems in the exercise of the collective rights of workers and employers and a further marginalisation of the principles of social partnership and the roles of trade unions. This article presents a brief history of the development of trade union organisations at home and abroad, as well as an assessment of their performance during the above-mentioned conditions and changes in Serbia. It concludes that commentators on the Serbian scene cannot speak of influential or credible unions during the twenty-year wandering that has marked the transition in Serbia. "

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