Actually, the research itself has discussed the unionisation in the
developed economies particularly. However, I attempt to answer the
question since we are doing the research on developing economies
particularly, in the next dissemination/publication.
It has believed that trade unions^ role in developing economies differs
from trade unions practices in developed economies (Mehta, 1957).
Mehta argues that the trade union movements, particularly in Asian
countries, suffer from various shortage such as lack of finances, low
and irregular membership, lack of experience and maturity among
union leaders, incorrect administrative and account work, and heavy
reliance on government intervention. These shortcomings are due to
the problem in most Asian countries, namely, illiteracy and poverty,
unemployment and underemployment, indebtedness, massive
population growth, and, foremost lower economic growth.
Accordingly, it is argued that these three aims reveal the significance of
trade unions as one of the economic institutions: raising wage level,
improving working and living conditions, and organising unskilled
labour. Therefore, we believe that these roles of the trade union provide
a prominent and critical part in improving labour income share in the
developing economies, particularly., i.e., Labour Law if Indonesia, such
as UU Cipta Kerja, that has been controversial and it might be revised
as the new government has announced publicly, mainly of the pay for
performance policies.
I hope my answers provide such a perspective to be an open-ended
elaboration and discussion further.
The main arguments of the study period is the data availability. In
order to be able to capture all listed countries in the developed
economies which has been concerned with all variables applied in the
research, thus we need to utilise the most relevant and at the same
time are available in the database. However, we also have considered
of the phenomena of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we have
decided to exclude it since it consists of an outlier in the data analysis.
Hopefully, it will be beneficial for further research and discussion,
particularly on the post pandemic era analysis.
We do believe that the research findings are remain relevant in the
context of current economic condition, since the European Union and
most of the developed economies have been considered carefully
regarding the labour income share and how effective the union in
improving the labour well-being.
