BY

SATISH CHAUDHARI
MAKARAND PATIL
HIREN PATEL
MALIKARJUN. H
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
PROCEDURE FOR 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

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 leadership of
Sorabjee Shapurjee Bengatee
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
Features of Trade Union
A strong and Permanent combinations of workers

A Common goal

For the security of workers in terms of job, salary etc

Outcome of trade union is an individualistic society

Advantages of Trade Union
Increase wages for its members.

 Represent Workers

Productivity deals.

 Important for Service Sector.

DEMAND AND NEEDS
 A statutory enactment providing for a six-hour working day.    
 Minimum living wage.
 Right to work as a fundamental right.
 Equal wages for equal work, without racial or sex discrimination.    
 One month's leave full pay, or an equivalent amount as compensation
when leave is not granted.
 Unemployment, sickness, oldage, accident and maternity, insurance,
comprehensive social sequrity scheme to be introduced.
  Pension for widowed mothers, unmarried mothers and dependent
children.  
 Proper housing.    
DEMANDS AND NEEDS
 Formation, through trade unions, of workers' committees in factories,
workshops, business houses and all other places where collective work
is performed, with a view to control conditions of work inside these
places.
 Abolition of the employment of children under 15 years of age.    
 Payment of wages to women workers six weeks before and six weeks
after child - birth.    
 Abolition of other systems of recruiting labor such as through
contractors, middlemen etc.
  Abolition of fines and debts.            
 Worker's participation in Management.        
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
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
All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
The Indian National Trade Union Congress
United Trade Union Congress (UTUC)
National Front of Indian Trade Unions
(NFITU)
All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)

Origin:
It was established in 1920 as result of a resolution passed by the organized workers of
Bombay.

Objectives:
 to establish a socialist state in India;
 to improve the economic and social conditions of the working class;
 to watch, promote, and further the interests, rights, and privileges of the workers
 to secure and maintain for the workers freedom of speech.
 freedom of press
 freedom of association and assembly
 the right to strike
 to co-ordinate the activities of the labour unions affiliated to the AITUC;
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.

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

full participation in that control.
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:

 to establish a socialist society in India.

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

 to bring about unity in the trade union movement.

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 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;
Activities of Trade Union
Economic Activities:
1. Strike
2. Collective Bargaining
3. Boycott
4. Demonstration
Political Activities:
1. Political Education of workers
2. Developing political parties their own
3. Carrying out lobbying activities to influence labor and
other legislations
4. Protecting against government decesions
Activities of Trade Union
Social Activities
1. Initiating workers education scheme
2. Providing house facilities
3. Engaging in cultural activities
4. Running cooperatives
International Activities
1. ILO activities
2. Sending monetary and other help to workers in different
countries during periods of need
DISADVANTAGES
Create Unemployment.

Ignore non Members

Lost Productivity.

 Wage Inflation.
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.
If unions become too powerful and they force wages
to be too high, then they may cause unemployment
and inflations
STRUGGLE FOR ……. BASIC NEED