ABSTRACT
Union democracy or its absence has become centrally pertinent to democracy in society as unions have expanded their explicitly political functions. In perhaps all advanced countries, the national trade unions and their federations have supported or opposed the incomes policies of their respective governments. These have often found such support useful, how ever briefly or nominally offered. International confederations of unions have demanded and received union representation on consultative bodies of the European Economic Community, and have demanded Europe-wide legislation to provide for greater worker representation on the boards of directors of all large corporations.
