“We got to work together. Together! Till they can’t get their coal out of the ground without us cause we’re a union!” exclaimed the fervent Joe Kenehan in the film, Matewan. Although unions have spurred on great development in the area of human rights and created a sense of unity and community in the workplace throughout history as demonstrated in Matewan, the reality is that, in the 21st century, unions hinder economic growth and development in many ways.
Firstly, in modern society, the most significant role of unions is negotiating wages and working conditions on behalf of all their members. However, this task performed by unions has become less and less necessary because most elements of the collective agreements that workers desperately
