1. Trade Union Structure

2. Organizational issues
Definition of organization : An organization as the planned coordination of the activities of a number of people for the achievement of some common explicit purpose of goals, through division of labour and functions, and through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.

3. Features of an organization
Below, may be regarded as some characteristic features of organizations :
Human activities
Activities requiring coordination
Common goals
Integration
Division of function
Authority and responsibility

4. Trade union
According to the Webbs (1894), a Trade Union “is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives”.
If we match the features of an organization as postulated by Schein (1980) in his definition of organizations, human activities, common goals, co-ordinations, functions, then, it would be sensible to argue that Trade Unions are indeed organizations as the definition of a Trade Union enunciated above shows the purpose in the regulation of the terms and conditions of employment of workers.

5. Organizational issues
How democratic is the charter or constitution of the TU?
The degree of influence of political party and its ideology
Extent of internal or intra-union democracy
Freedom of expression
Participatory method of decision making on the issues affecting the interests of the members
Majority rule vs minority rights
Candidate selection, leadership selection, policy making, membership relations, gender and minorities
Functional autonomy
Intellectual gap between the union leaders and the workers at the lower level
Decentralization