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TRADE

UNIONS

MEANING

• (^) A trade union is an organized group of workers who strive to help the workers in the issues relating to the fairness of pay, good working environment, hours of work and other benefits that they should be entitled to instead of their labour.
• (^) They act as a link between the management and workers. In spite of being newly originated institutions, they have turned into a powerful force because of their direct influence on the social and economic lives of the workers.

REASON FOR THE FORMATION OF TRADE UNIONS

• (^) Before the emergence of industrialization on a massive scale, there were personal contracts between the workers and employers.
• (^) Therefore, no requirement for the evolution of any machinery governing the relationship between workers and employers arose until then.
• (^) But after the establishment of modern factory system this relationship lost its significance due to large scale industrialization which enticed employers to reduce the cost of production in order to withstand the cut-throat competition in the market and maximize their profit by using technologically
• (^) In turn resulted in the rise of a new class of workers who were completely dependant on the wages for their survival which changed the existing employer and employee relationship in which the employees were exploited by their employers.
• (^) The conflict of interest between workers and employers and the distress of workers resulted in the growth of various trade unions.

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADEUNIONS IN INDIA

LEGISLATION

• (^) The Trade Unions Act 1926
• (^) The Act gave a legal status to the registered trade

unions and conferred on them and their members a

measure of immunity from civil suits and criminal

presentation.

• (^) Registration of union gave them respectability before

employers.

• (^) SOCIAL JUSTICE
• (^) Getting independence and awareness
• (^) The workers began to ask their rights, politically, and economically.

TIME LINES

• The first World war 1875- 1917
• Period between 2 world wars and independence 1918- 1946
• Post independence period 1947- up to date

THE PHILANTROPISTS- 1875

• (^) The need for an organized trade union was first realized in 1875 by various philanthropists and social workers like
• (^) Shri Sorabji Shapaji Bengali and
• (^) Shri N.M. Lokhandey whose constant efforts resulted in the formation of trade unions like
• (^) The Printers Union of Calcutta (1905),
• (^) the Bombay Postal Union (1907).

TEXT AND INDUSTRIAL GROWTH –

• (^) The setting up of textile and mill industries at the beginning of the 19th century in the presidency towns of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta gave push to the formation of industrial workforce association in India.
• (^) The Bombay Mill-Hands Association, founded by N.M. Lokhande in 1890 is the first labour association of India.
• (^) the Madras Labour Union which is the first properly registered trade-union founded by B.P. Wadia in the year 1918

All India Trade Union Congress

(AITUC) 1920

• (^) First trade union federation
• (^) it was formed after the observations made by the International Labour Organization which highlighted the influence of politics on trade unions and associations

INDEPENDENCE AND TRADE UNIONS

• (^) organized trade union was realized by nationalist leaders like Mahatma Gandhi who to improve the employer and worker relationship gave the concept of trusteeship which
• (^) the people who are financially
• (^) welfare of the workers who are financially not well placed in the society
• (^) each worker should think of himself as being a trustee of other workers and strive to safeguard the interest of the other workers.

Development of Trade Union Law in

India

• (^) Labour legislation in India has a key impact on the development of industrial relations.
• (^) The establishment of social justice has been the principle of all the labour legislation in India.
• (^) The establishment of the International Labour Organization to uplift the condition of labour all over the world gave further push to the need for well-framed labour legislation in the country.

MOVEMENTS BY NATIONALISTS IN

INDIA

• (^) Swaraj movement of 1921-
• (^) Swadeshi Movement 1906
• (^) the royal commission on labour
• (^) paved the way for various labour laws and also encouraged the framers of the constitution to incorporate such laws in the constitution which will benefit the labourers.

LABOUR LAWS OF INDIA

• (^) Apprentices Act, 1961 : The object of the Act was the promotion of new manpower at skills and improvement and refinement of old skills through practical and theoretical training.
• (^) Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 : The object of the Act was the regulation of employment of contract labour along with its abolition in certain circumstances.
• (^) Employees’ provident funds and misc. Provision Act, 1952 : The Act regulated the payment of wages to the employees and also guaranteed them social security.
• (^) Factories Act, 1948 : The Act aimed at ensuring the health of the workers who were engaged in certain specified employments.
• (^) Minimum wages Act, 1948 : The Act aimed at fixing minimum rates of wages in certain employments.
• (^) Trade Union Act, 1926 : The Act provided for registration of trade unions and defined the laws relating to registered trade unions

LABOUR LAWS OF INDIA

• (^) Apprentices Act, 1961 : The object of the Act was the promotion of new manpower at skills and improvement and refinement of old skills through practical and theoretical training.
• (^) Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 : The object of the Act was the regulation of employment of contract labour along with its abolition in certain circumstances.
• (^) Employees’ provident funds and misc. Provision Act, 1952 : The Act regulated the payment of wages to the employees and also guaranteed them social security.
• (^) Factories Act, 1948 : The Act aimed at ensuring the health of the workers who were engaged in certain specified employments.
• (^) Minimum wages Act, 1948 : The Act aimed at fixing minimum rates of wages in certain employments.
• (^) Trade Union Act, 1926 : The Act provided for registration of trade unions and defined the laws relating to registered trade unions