"Things have been going badly for workers, but for many years their traditional representatives in the workplace – trade unions – have been on the back-foot. This column revisits the association between unionisation and job satisfaction, and finds that while in the past union workers used to have lower job satisfaction than their non-union counterparts, union membership now raises wellbeing at work. The study suggests that unions do the same as they always did – it is the non-union world that has changed for the worse. There is evidence of this sparking a growth in unionisation in the UK over the last three years. "

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