Abstract

The article is aimed at defining peculiarities of trade unions as an element of political system of Ukraine as well as the role of professional organizations in representing interests of employees. The tasks to achieve the mentioned goals are as follows: - to define trade unions’ principal functions in the modern political system; - to analyze influence of Ukrainian political parties and state bodies over trade unions’ activities; - to define communication instruments of impact making by trade unions on electorate’s collective political consciousness. Only when trade unions can get rid of their political and financial dependence and start taking care of employees’ problems, they will be able not to just keep “sharing experience” with oldstyle organizations in post-Soviet area, but act equally to the European trade union movement.