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The trade union satisfies many psychological needs of its members: emotional security (because they can belong to it); unity of purpose, and the power of unity; prestige; approval; encouragement of the passive as well as the aggressive; the feeling of being understood; provision for possible success of realistic goals. 'Workers may favor the union for what they think are the economic advantages it offers them, when in reality it is fulfilling some of their unconscious emotional needs.'