Based on the review and analysis of scientific and trade union literature, as well as the comparison of various primary and secondary research data at the level of descriptive statistics, this paper aims at answering some of the questions that arise in relation to the attitudes of young people in Croatia towards trade unions: the various reasons for young people?s non-membership or reduced membership in trade unions, the increase in young people?s distrust of trade unions, and the question of how familiar young people in Croatia are with collective labour rights and, in general, with the work and activities of trade unions in Croatia. The theoretical and empirical findings, presented and analysed, as well as the conclusions of this paper, could contribute to a better understanding of the attitudes of young people in Croatia towards trade unions, and could have an application value in the design of labour rights education programmes in the framework of civic education, as well as in the implementation of various activities to attract new members among trade unions themselves in the Republic of Croatia.