Average Number of Strike Days per Year for 1000 Employed in eu during 2003 - 2010

Look at the diagramme and answer the questions.

1. Which countries demonstrate low, average or high strike activity?

2. What countries can boast the most active trade unions? How can you explain this fact?

3. Do you think the deindustrialization East European countries faced influenced the number of strike days compared to that of the Western Europe?

Critical thinking

Do you think unions should be represented on a company’s board of directors, as happens in some countries?

Writing

1. Do some research and write about the history of trade unions in your country. Consider the following points: When were they first founded? Have they always been legal? When did they have hay days and downfalls? Has their importance increased or decreased nowadays?

Abstract Writing

Read the text and write an abstract to it. Use the clichés in Appendix.

Essay writing

Most of the students are members of the University Students’ Trade Union. In your essay describe advantages and disadvantages of trade union membership.