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    TRADE UNION

    • Trade Union means a combination formed for


    the purpose of regulating the relations not
    only between workmen and employers but
    also between workmen and workmen or
    between employers and employers

    - Trade Union Act 1926


    WHAT IS TRADE UNION
    A trade union is an organised group of workers. Its
    main goal is to protect and advance the interests
    of its members

    A union often negotiates agreements with


    employers on pay and conditions. It may also
    provide legal and financial advice, sickness
    benefits and education facilities to its members

    Trade unions aim to represent the interests of


    people at work and negotiate with employers for
    better terms and conditions for their members
    HISTORY OF TRADE
    UNION
    The first trade union was started in 1877 in Nagpur
    It was this labour protest on an organized scale,
    through the support of some philanthropic
    personalities, that organized labour unions came to be
    formed
    The setting up of large-scale industrial units, created
    conditions of widespread use of machinery, new lines
    of production, and brought about changes in working
    and living environment of workers, and concentration
    of industries in large towns
    The first Factory’s Act was passed in 1881 by N.M.
    Lokhode
    In 1919 Madras Labour Union was the first Union in
    India to be formed and established by B. P. Vadia
    Bombay Trade Union formed in 1975 under the
    PROCEDURE OF REGISTRATION OF
    TRADE UNION
    At least 7 members should be present for an application

    It should in a prescribed form ,fees and should be

    registered under the Registrar of Trade Unions


    Should be accompanied by a copy of the Rules of TU

    Certificate of Registration is issued as soon as TU has

    been duely registered under the Act


    FUNCTION OF TRADE
    UNION
     To secure for workers better wages

     To safeguard security of tenure and improve conditions of


    service
     To increase opportunities for promotion and training

     To improve working and living condition

     To provide for educational cultural and recreational facilities

     To promote identity of interests of the workers

     To offer improved level of production and productivity


    discipline and high standard of quality
     To promote individual and collective welfare
    WHAT IS TRADE UNION
    MOVEMENT
     The trade union movement started after 1918, when the workers
    formed their associations to improve their conditions. It is, thus, a
    part of the ‘labour movement’, which is a much wide term

     A trade union is an essential basis of a labour movement for


    without which one cannot exist, because trade unions are the
    principal schools in which the workers learn the lesson of self-
    reliance and solidarity

     Trade Unionism in India has been the natural out come of the
    modern factory system

     The main elements in the development of trade unions of workers


    in every country have been more or less the same

     The development of trade unionism in India has had a checkered


    history and a stormy career
    TRADE UNION
    MOVEMENT GROWTH
    Social Welfare Period (1875-1918)
     The development of industries led to large-scale production on the one hand
    and social evils like employment and exploitation of women and child labour
    and the deplorable workable conditions, the government’s attitude of
    complete indifference in respect of protection of labour from such evils, on
    the other.

    Early Trade Union Period(1918-1924)

     The year 1918 was an important one for the Indian trade union movement.

     The industrial unrest that grew up as a result of grave economic difficulties


    created by war. The rising cost of living prompted the workers to demand
    reasonable wages for which purpose they united to take resort to collective
    action.

    Left-Wing Unionism Period (1924-1934)

     In 1924, a violent and long-drawn-out strike by unions led to the arrest,


    prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of many communist leaders. The
    rapid growth of the trade unionism was facilitated by several factors
    TRADE UNION
    MOVEMENT GROWTH
    Trade Union’s Unity Period (1935-1938)

     In mid-thirties the state of divided labour movement was natural


    thought undesirable and soon after the first split, attempts at trade
    union unity began to be made through the efforts of the Roy Group on
    the basis of ‘a platform of unity’.

    Second World War Period (1939-1945)

     The Second World War, which broke out in September 1939, created new
    strains in the united trade union movement.

     Hence, again a rift took place in 1941 and the Radicals left the AITUC with
    nearly 200 unions with a membership of 3, 00,000 and formed a new
    central federation known as the Indian Federation of Labour

    The Post-Independence Period (From 1947 to-date)

     As pointed out earlier, when attempts to restructure the AITUC failed, those
    believing in the aims and ideals other than those of the AITUC separated
    from the organization and established the Indian National Trade Union
    Congress (INTUC) in May, 1947
    Names and details of some
    Unions in India
    The Indian National Trade Union Congress

    Origin:

    The INTUC came into existence on 4th May, 1948, as a result of the resolution
    passed on 17th November 1947, by the Central Board of the Hindustan
    Mazdoor Sevak Sangh, which was a labour leader on the Gandhian
    Philosophy of Sarvodaya

    Objectives:

     To establish an order of society which is free from hindrances to an all-


    round development of its individual members, which fosters the growth of
    human personality in all its aspects, and which goes to the utmost limit in
    progressively eliminating social, political or economic exploitation and
    inequality, the profit motive in the economic activity and organization of
    society and the anti-social concentration of power in any form;

     to place industry under national ownership and control in a suitable form;

     to secure increasing association of workers in the administration of industry


    and their full participation in that control;
    All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)

    Origin:
    It was established in 1920 as result of a resolution passed by the organized
    workers of Bombay and the delegates which met I a conference on 31st
    October, 1920.

    Objectives:

     to establish a socialist state in India;

     to socialize and nationalize means of production, distribution and exchange;

     to improve the economic and social conditions of the working class;

     to watch, promote, and further the interests, rights, and privileges of the
    workers in all matters relating to their employment;

     to secure and maintain for the workers the freedom of speech, freedom of
    press, freedom of association freedom of assembly, the right to strike, and
    the right to work and maintenance;

     to co-ordinate the activities of the labour unions affiliated to the AITUC;


    United Trade Union Congress (UTUC)

    Origin:

    Some trade union leaders of the socialist bent met together December 1948
    to form a new central organization of labour, called Hind Mazdoor Sabha

    Objectives:

     The objectives of the UTUC are:

     to establish a socialist society in India;

     to establish a workers’ and peasants’ state in India;

     to nationalize and socialize the means of production, distribution and


    exchange;

     to safeguard and promote the interests, rights, and privileges to the


    workers in all matters, social, cultural, economic and political;

     to secure and maintain workers’ freedom of speech, freedom of press,


    freedom of association, freedom of assembly, right to strike, right to work
    or maintenance and the right to social security;
    Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)

    Origin:

    This union has been the outcome of decision taken by the Jana Sangh in its
    Convention at Bhopal on 23rd July, 1954.

    Objectives:
     to establish the Bhartiya order of classless society in which there shall be
    secured full employment;

     to assist workers in organizing themselves in trade unions as medium of


    service to the motherland irrespective of faiths and political affinities;

     the right to strike;

     to inculcate in the minds of the workers the spirit of service, co-operation


    and dutifulness and develop in them a sense of responsibility towards the
    nation in general and the industry in particular.

     The BMS is a productivity-oriented non-political trade union. Its ideological


    basis is the triple formula:

     nationalize the labour;


    National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
    Origin

    This union was founded in 1967, with the claim that “this trade union of India
    is not controlled by any of the political party, employers or government.”

    Objectives:

     to organize and unite trade unions with the object of building up a National
    Central Organisation of trade unions, independent of political parties,
    employers and the government, to further the cause of labour and that of
    national solidarity security and defence of India, and to make the working
    people conscious of their right as well as of obligations in all spheres of life;

     to secure to members of trade unions full facilities of recognition and


    effective representation of interests of workers and to ensure for the
    working people fair conditions of life and service and progressively to raise
    their social, economic and cultural state and conditions;

     to help in every possible way member trade unions in their fight to raise
    real wages of the workers;

     to endeavour to secure for members of affiliated trade unions adoption of


    Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU)
    Origin
    This union was formed in 1970 when as a result of the rift in the AITUC, some
    members of the Communist party seceded. About the objectives of the
    CITU, its constitution says:

    Objectives:

     The CITU believes that the exploitation of the working class can be ended
    only by socializing all means of production, distribution and exchange and
    establishing a socialist state, that is, it stands for the complete
    emancipation of the society from all exploitation.

     The CITU fights against all encroachments on the economic and social
    rights of the workers and the enlargement of their rights and liberties
    including the right to strike, for winning, defending and extending the
    freedom of the democratic trade union movement.

     In the fight for the immediate interest of the working class the CITU
    demands: (a) nationalization of all foreign monopoly concerns who
    barbarously exploit the working class; (b) nationalization of all concerns
    owned by Indian monopolists and big industry who garner huge profits at
    the expenses of the workers, who exploit the people by pegging prices at a
    CRITICISMS

    Political Affiliations

     As regards leadership, all the four organizations have their


    political affiliations, and the leadership, therefore, lies in the
    hands of the politicians, and not in those of the working class,
    which is yet illiterate and backward to wield any influence.

     The AITUC is pro-communist. It is led by the Right CPI. Its attitude


    towards the government is not entirely hostile, but of course
    highly critical of the government.

     The UTUC is radical, non-communist and anti-INTUC. It is led by


    some independent trade union leaders, the Forward Block and the
    Revolutionary Socialist Party.

     On the international level, the INTUC is affiliated to the


    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) – an
    organization mainly supported by the Anglo American block; while
    the AITUC is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions
    (WFTU), supported by the Communist block.
    CONCLUSION
    Trade Union is an important factor of the
    current society, as it safeguards the basic
    interest and needs of both the employees as
    well as employers, by giving better terms and
    conditions of employment, secured jobs,
    better wages, favorable working environment
    which in turn leads to desired profitability.

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