TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICAL SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION: APPROACHES TO RELATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Abstract

The article outlines the consequences of decentralization processes in the form of new opportunities to represent the interests of local communities, which previously did not acquire articulation in the conditions of domination of central political forces and vertically subordinated administrative system. The great importance of the problems of social dialogue and social and labor relations at the local level is analyzed. An analysis of local communities as powerful socio-economic complexes, involving a large number of employees. It is emphasized that the community is a complex economic organism in which it is important to make demands for better working conditions and higher social standards. A retrospective analysis showed that the functions of uniting employees based on local political requirements can and should be performed by modern trade unions. It is substantiated that modern trade unions all over the world are going through a painful stage of political self-identification. It is proved that the traditional scenarios of partnership with party political forces lose their attractiveness and advantages in ensuring the profile functions of trade unions. Understanding Instead, the local level enables central trade unions as well as local associations to act as a source of policy innovation and demands that are not fully reflected at the local level. Effectiveness Trade unions can become full-fledged subjects of local politics, play an important role in determining the trends of urban policy of Ukrainian cities. One of the main tasks of transforming the doctrinal foundations of trade unions and their organizational reform requires the search for a social environment within the new «post-COVID» economic system. In Ukrainian society. The political significance of trade unions at the local level is gaining ground against the background of decentralization processes.