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AGENDA

Topics

Presenters

Trade Unions and their

Movement, and Growth in

Idris

India

National level federation,

trade union problems

Trade union organization

Leadership of trade unions

Mamtha

Phetsmone

Shilpashree
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INTRODUCTION

General Background.

The main elements.

With The setting up of large-scale industrial units.

It was the labour protest.

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WHAT IS TRADE UNION?

According to sec. 2(h) of Trade Unions Act 1926

Trade union
means any combination,
whether temporary or permanent, formed
primarily for the purpose of regulating the
relations between workmen and employers, or
between workmen and workmen, or between
employers and employers, or for imposing
restrictive conditions on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation
of two or more trade unions.

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CHARACTERISTICS

combination of worker.

permanent or temporary.

federation of two or more unions.

It regulate relations.

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OBJECTIVES
Representation
Negotiation

(Workers Interests)

(Collective Bargaining)

Voice

in decisions (Lay off,

Retrenchment) affecting workers

Member

Service (Education, Training,

Welfare, Discounts, Loans)

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FUNCTIONS
Militant
i.

functions
To achieve higher wages and better working
conditions

ii.

To raise the status of workers as a part of

industry

iii.

To protect labors against victimization and

injustice

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 Fraternal
i.

Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the
morale of workers

ii.

To generate self confidence among workers

iii.

To encourage sincerity and discipline among

workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and
growth
To protect women workers against
discrimination

iv.
v.

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I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.

Social Functions
Welfare activities
Education scheme
and procedure for redressing their grievances
Publication of periodicals
Research

.Political

Functions

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TYPES OF TRADE UNIONS

I.

Crafts Unions (Electricians, Plumbers)

II.

Industrial Unions (Coal, transport)

III.

Staff Unions

IV.

General Unions

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Growth and Development

of the TU Movement
(Unionism)

It can be divided in to three phases

The first phase (1850 to1900)

The second phase (1900 to 1946)

The third phase began with the emergence

of independent India (in 1947)

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National level federations and Trade union

problems

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NATIONAL LEVEL
FEDERATION
AITUC

INTUC

CITU

HMS

ALL INDIA TRADE UNION

CONGRESS

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OBJECTIVES
To

establish a socialist state in India

To improve the economic and social
condition of the workers
To safeguard and promote workers rights
To fight against all type of autocratic against
women and harassment at work place

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
Affiliate
d unions

General
council
PRESIDENT
VICE-PRESIDENT
GENERAL
SECRETARY
TREASURER
SECRETREIES
MEMBERS

Provisiona
l bodies

INDIAN NATIONAL TRADE

UNION CONGRESS

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ORGANIZATION
STRUCTURE
INTU
C
State
level
Industry
level
federation

Unit
level

HIND MAZDOOR SABHA

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ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT

GENERAL
SECRETARY

TREASURER

MEMBERS

OBJECTIVES
To promote the economic, political and
social interest
To form a federation of union
To promote the formation of co-operative
societies

CENTRE OF INDIAN TRADE

UNIONS
OBJECTIVE

:To protect the economic,

social and political interest of the workers
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE:
1. Central committee
2. State committee
3. Affiliated unions

OTHER TRADE UNIONS

National

labor organization
United trade union organization
Trade unions co-ordination centre
Indian federation of free trade unions
Bharatiya mazdooor sangh
National front of Indian trade union

TRADE UNION PROBLEMS

Lack

of balanced growth
Low membership
Poor financial position
Political control
Multiplicity of unions
Inter-union rivalry

CONTINUED..
Opposition

from employers
Lack of recognition
Illiterate and ignorance of workers
Heterogeneous nature of labor

Trade Union Organization

Introduction
Atrade union is an organization workers who
have come together.
To achieve common goals such as protecting the
integrity of its trade.
To improve their conditions of employment.

Providing assistance and services to their

members.
Collectively bargaining for better pay and
conditions for all workers.
Working to improve the quality of public
services, political campaigning and industrial
action.

Unions structure diagram

Mission
To promote training in different areas of
employability and facilitate skills development in
youth.
To promote and provide free education to
increase employability through skill development.
To create more employment opportunities.
Secure the rights of workers at work.

 To promote worker education and right at work

place.
To enhance the coverage of welfare policies and
schemes of the government for women and
children.
To ensure occupational safety and health at the
work place.

Vision
A living wage to all work-people.
Guaranteed right to work for every citizen.
Provision for adequate leisure in the form of
reasonable hours of work and holidays with pay.

 Adequate provision for child welfare and

maternity protection.
Slum clearance and provision of adequate housing
with facilities for recreation and culture.
Repeal of all legislation encroaching upon the
fundamental rights of labor.

LEADERSHIP OF TRADE UNIONS

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The leadership provides the direction and goals for a

particular union. The leaders task is to make the union
effective, by improving the terms and conditions of
employment of the
worker and also by being concerned with the viability
of the enterprise.

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Concepts of Trade Union

Leadership:

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Leadership Functions
Interaction
Create

required environment
Providing support to the group
Resolve conflicts
Leadership is an emotional and political process

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Leadership and motivation

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 For

IMPROTANCE OF TRADE
UNIONS
industrial peace

Decisions taken through the process of

collective bargaining and negotiations between
employer and unions are more influential
Effective communication between the workers
and the management
Economic

development

Recruitment & selection

Discipline among workforce
Settlement of ID in rational manner

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Emergence of trade union to an extent

helped to improve the standard of living of
WORKERS but it is fact That trade unions now

a days downsized as a toy/instrument of

various political parties which force them to
regret its moral values

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