Factors Affecting Labour Union Training in the New Normal

Abstract

Labour unions have longed recognized proper help in education and training for officials, 
activists and its members in general helps to make the union to be a more effective provider of 
services to its members, organization, government, and society at large. One of the functions 
of labour union to its members and officials especially in order to bring about development is 
training. Bearing in mind that every union member is also a worker/employee in an 
organization and it is the job of labour union to protect the interest of its members and also be 
deliberate about their development, and contributions to the union as well as the organization 
they work for. Change is a constant phenomenon in life, which has made the most significant 
health crisis the world has faced in past 100 years called COVID-19 resulted into what is called 
a “new normal”. The COVID-19 has disrupted our way of living with unprecedented 
consequences for our daily lives which includes how we work and learn. As long as the world 
has not found a proper cure or if we still have to depend on vaccine for COVID-19, we may 
have to adjust to a “new normal”, which means a new way of living, going about our lives, 
work, interactions with other people, changes in technology which will require new skills, 
resulting to new methods of training in organizations and the world at large. One notable 
example is the Industrial Revolution, which reshaped societies and economies in lasting ways 
and drastically changed the way people work, and live. The coronavirus disease pandemic 
similarly produced fundamental changes in work, work practices, the relationship of workers 
to co-workers, companies, and localities. The labour force has had its own fair share of how 
the pandemic has caused a drastic change, which has affected labour union training. This paper 
discussed the different methods and techniques of training considering the new normal adopted 
by labour union in training their members.