Digital Unions. Right to Association and Representation: New Challenges

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of ensuring the right to representation and the right to unite employees by creating digital trade unions. The analysis of the practice of the Trade Union of Public Education and Science Workers of the Russian Federation on the transition to a single electronic database (platform) leads the author to the conclusion that the digital trade union in modern conditions is an effective means of implementing the statutory functions and protecting the social and labor rights of trade union members. The article also reflects the problems of creating digital trade unions at enterprises using non-standard forms of employment: the majority of non-standard employees are not members of a trade union, which deprives them of the opportunity for appropriate protection from trade union organizations. And with the growth of non-standard forms of employment, there is a reduction in solidary participants in labor relations, and a reduction in subsidiary ones. In addition, there is a tendency to reduce the total number of trade union organizations, as clearly evidenced by trade union statistics.