“If collective bargaining depends on effective worker organization, and trade unions have historically emerged as the main form of worker organisation, it may seem to follow that the decline of trade union density, reflected in declining bargaining coverage, spells the demise of collective bargaining. If so, it might seem that labour law should shift its focus to new forms of worker organization and to new forms of collective interaction.”

-Darcy Du Toit, “What is the future of Collective Bargaining (and Labour Law) in South Africa”, (2007) 28 ILJ 1405 at 1417