UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS TRADE UNIONS

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between attitudes to trades unions and gender, family membership of trades unions and area of education. The study sample comprised 368 final year university students. In the data analysis, frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, reliability analysis and Student's t-test were used. Support of the students for unionisation was determined as mean 4.63 +/- 1.03. Another significant finding of the study was that there was a significant relationship between the field of study and attitude towards trades unions. No significant relationship was determined in terms of gender. These findings directly indicate the critical importance for unionisation of the attitudes towards trades unions of students who are not as yet in employment.