Trade Union

TRADE UNION
• Awen Group Members

• Muno
• Athingba
• Pruchai
• Tonaka
• Keneinguzo
• Tiajungla
• Hoshikhun
• Yimtinukshi
• Mutseto
Content
• Meaning and Definition
• Characteristics
• Objectives
• Needs or Importance
• Functions
• History Of Trade Union
• Problems Of Trade Union in Indian.
Meaning
• Trade Union also called
Labour Union,
• Association of workers in a
particular trade, industry, or
company
• Created for the purpose of
securing improvement in
pay, benefits, working
conditions, or social and
political status through
collective bargaining.
DEFINATION
According to Sec. 2 (h) of The Trade Union 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”
Characteristics/Features Of
Trade Union
• Association of employees
• Voluntary Association
• Permanent Body
• Common Interest
• Collective Action
• Rapport with the
Management
• Continuous in Nature
Objectives of Trade Union
• Better Wages
• Better Working Condition
• Protection Against Exploitation
• Protection against Victimization
• Provide welfare measures
• Promote industrial Peace
• Take up collective Bargaining
Needs/Importance of Trade Union
1. The individual workers all alone feels
especially weak in a world of mass production
and mass movement. An organization may
give him an opportunity to join others for the
achievement of those objectives that he
considers as socially desirable.
2. The basic purpose of trade union is to safeguard
the economic interests of its members. One of
the problems in the life of the workers is how to
provide sufficient food, clothing and a home for
himself and for the members of his family. This
is first and foremost a question of finding a job
on a reasonable wage. To improve and maintain
the wage at 47 a reasonable standard is one of
the primary reasons for which a worker joins a
trade union.
3. A worker does not only require the bare
necessaries of existence but he also wants to
obtain the amenities of civilized life, e.g., a
better home, more leisure, better conditions of
work, etc. The workers also join the trade
unions, to a very large extent, because they
have interests such as these to promote or
defend.
4. The need for trade unions arises due to this
fact also that the workers require help in time
of sickness or death, protection from suffering
and want when they are not of a job and an
income of some kind when they are too old to
work anymore.
5. There is anesthetic reason for the existence of trade unions, viz.,
need for adequate machinery for settling the relations between the
employers and employees. In modern industry the old personal
relationship between the employers and the workers largely
disappears. The worker may become dissatisfied with his working
conditions or the treatment of his employers while the employer
may feel that he has reason for complaint against the workers.
With the growth 48 to industry the number of such questions to be
settled increases and it is much better to adjust these differences
by agreement between the employers and employees through
negotiations. Thus, a trade union is the best and socially most
desirable to conduct bargaining on behalf of the workers and the
development of collective bargaining between the employers' and
workers' organizations is an essential basis for the establishment
of peace in industry.
6. Trade unions developed on proper lines
lessens violent class conflicts and, thus, is
beneficial to employers, the employees, the
state and the public. It is, thus, clear that no
agency formed or promoted to look after the
interests of the workers can be a real substitute
for trade unions. The organization of workers
is, therefore, not only necessary but also
inevitable.
Functions of Trade Union
• Militant or protective or
intra-mutual functions
• Fraternal or extra-mutual
functions
• Political Function
• Social Function
History of Trade
Union in India
First World War 1914-18
• Government of India’s Factory Act 1881
• Labor leader Narayan MeghajiLokkande
• Bombay Mill Hands Association
• 1918 Trade Union Movement in India
became more organized
1920: Gandhi formed The Textile
Labor Association
Lala Lajpat Rai : All India Trade
Union Congress (AITUC)
Mr. N.M. Joshi : General Secretary
of All India Trade Union Congress
• introduce legislation for the registration and

protection of Trade Union’s
• 1924 : communist leaders were arrested and

prosecuted against aggressive and lengthy
strikes
Trade Union Act 1926
Different Unions and Federations are:
• All India Trade Union Congress 1920
• Red Trade Union Congress 1931,
• National Federation of Labor 1933,
• Red Trade Union Congress merged with AITUC
in 1935,
• Indian Federation of Labor 1941 etc.
Suresh Chandra Banerjee : President
of the congress
• Eighteenth Session of ACAUT 28-29 Sept.

1940
• Merging of the National Trades Union

Federation in the All-India Trade Union
Congress
1942:Tripartite Labor
Conference
1947 : Indian National Trade
Union Congress (INTUC)
Assam ChahMazdoor Sangha
• Plantation Labor Act, 1951,
• government of Assam has fixed Rs.169 as the

minimum daily wage for tea plantation
workers
National Council of Central
Trade Union By : AITUC, INTUC
and HMS
• At present there are 14 Central Trade
Unions and Federations
• Example:
All India Bank Employees Association,
All India Mine Workers Federation
Problems of trade union in India
• Uneven Growth
• Low Membership
• Outside Leadership
• Multiplicity of Union
• Inter union Rivalry
• Absence of Paid Office Bearers
• Weak Financial position
• Lack of interest
• Limited Stress on Welfare
• Lack of public support

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TRADE UNION

• Awen Group Members

• introduce legislation for the registration and

• 1924 : communist leaders were arrested and

• Eighteenth Session of ACAUT 28-29 Sept.

• Merging of the National Trades Union

• Plantation Labor Act, 1951,

• government of Assam has fixed Rs.169 as the

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