Abstract
In my contribution I would like to address to legal issues that has evolved in the Czech Republic recently and caused adjustments in organisation of trade unions. They are: local trade union organisations without legal personality that are dominated by the biggest trade union federation in country and full online memberships.
Since 1989, Czech trade unions have been losing numbers. To reverse the situation, they have to implement new strategies.
The biggest trade union federation had broken old gentleman agreements concluded with other powerful trade unions and has entered businesses, which were deemed to be outside its scope of operation. However, in order to limit legal risks, it has returned to the weird Communists structure of trade unionism: although it is a federation of local trade unions, it pretends to act as a one small local trade union organization at a particular employer.