Download VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University) MBA 3rd Semester (Third Semester) 16MBAHR301-Industrial Relations and Legislations IR Notes Module 3 Important Lecture Notes (MBA Study Material Notes)
Module-3
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
The federation of union
? Various union combines together to form federation of union for the
purpose of gaining more solidarity and strength.
? Such federation can take collective action when needed.
? INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha,
? Bharatiya Mazdoorsabha,
? NATIONAL Labor Organization
? All India BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION,
? All India Railway Men association,
? All India electricity employee association.
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
The federation of union
? Various union combines together to form federation of union for the
purpose of gaining more solidarity and strength.
? Such federation can take collective action when needed.
? INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha,
? Bharatiya Mazdoorsabha,
? NATIONAL Labor Organization
? All India BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION,
? All India Railway Men association,
? All India electricity employee association.
Union Problems
? Trade union leadership
? Multiple unions
? Union rivalry
? Finance
? Other problems
? Literacy
? Uneven growth
? Low membership
? Heterogeneous nature of labour
? Lack of interest
? Absence of paid office bearers
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
The federation of union
? Various union combines together to form federation of union for the
purpose of gaining more solidarity and strength.
? Such federation can take collective action when needed.
? INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha,
? Bharatiya Mazdoorsabha,
? NATIONAL Labor Organization
? All India BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION,
? All India Railway Men association,
? All India electricity employee association.
Union Problems
? Trade union leadership
? Multiple unions
? Union rivalry
? Finance
? Other problems
? Literacy
? Uneven growth
? Low membership
? Heterogeneous nature of labour
? Lack of interest
? Absence of paid office bearers
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
The federation of union
? Various union combines together to form federation of union for the
purpose of gaining more solidarity and strength.
? Such federation can take collective action when needed.
? INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha,
? Bharatiya Mazdoorsabha,
? NATIONAL Labor Organization
? All India BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION,
? All India Railway Men association,
? All India electricity employee association.
Union Problems
? Trade union leadership
? Multiple unions
? Union rivalry
? Finance
? Other problems
? Literacy
? Uneven growth
? Low membership
? Heterogeneous nature of labour
? Lack of interest
? Absence of paid office bearers
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Trade-Unions
Module-3
Meaning
? A trade union is an organization of employees formed on a
continuous basis for the purpose of securing diverse range of benefits.
? It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of
maintaining and improving the conditions of their working lives.
Definition
? The Trade Union Act 1926 defines a trade union as a 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 condition on the conduct of any
trade or business, and includes any federation of two or more trade
unions.
? There are some 164 million trade-union members worldwide, making
trade unions the worlds largest social movement by far.
? Even so, it represents little more than 1-in-20 of the worlds 3 billion-
plus workers. The rest often go unrepresented.
? In?India?the?Trade?Union?movement?is?generally?divided?on?political?
lines.?
? According?to?provisional?statistics?from?the?Ministry?of?Labour,?trade?
unions?had?a?combined?membership?of?24,601,589?in?2002.
? As?of?2008,?there?are?11?Central?Trade?Union?Organisations?(CTUO)?
recognised?by?the?Ministry?of?Labour
? At present there are twelve Central Trade Union Organizations in India:
1. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
2. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
3. Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
4. Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat (HMKP)
5. Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
6. Indian Federation of Free Trade Unions (IFFTU)
7. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
8. National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU)
9. National Labor Organization (NLO)
10. Trade Unions Co-ordination Centre (TUCC)
11. United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and 12. United Trade Union
Congress - Lenin Sarani (UTUC - LS)
Objective of Trade Unions
? Wages salaries
? Working conditions
? Discipline
? Personnel policies
? Welfare
? Employee-employer relation
? Negotiating machinery
? Safeguarding organizational health and interest of the industry
2. Fraternal Functions
To take up welfare measures for improving the morale of
workers
To generate self confidence among workers
To encourage sincerity and discipline among workers
To provide opportunities for promotion and growth
To protect women workers against discrimination
Procedures for the Registration of Trade Unions
? The four procedure involved in registration of trade unions are as
follows:
1. Appointment of Registrar
2. Mode of Registration
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union
1. Appointment of Registrar:
? Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926 empowers the appropriate
Government to appoint a person to be registrar of Trade Unions.
? The appropriate Government be it State or Central, as the case may
be is also empowered to appoint additional and Deputy Registrars as
it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging the powers
and duties of the Registrar.
? However, such person will work under the superintendence and
direction of the Registrar.
? He may exercise such powers and functions of Registrar with local
limit as may be specified for this purpose.
2. Mode of Registration:
? Any seven or more persons who want to form trade union, can apply
for its registration to the Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4
(1) of the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be members
of a trade union.
? In order to check the multiplicity of trade unions, one school of
thought has proposed the number of persons farming a trade union
for the purposes of registration be reasonably increased to 10 per
cent of employees of the unit, subject to minimum of seven persons
employed therein This is expected to strengthen the trade union
movement. The application for registration must be sent to the
Registrar of Trade Unions in Form ?A? as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
Every application must be accompanied with
the following particulars:
? 1. The names, occupations and addresses of the members making
application.
? 2. The name of the trade union and the address of its head office.
? 3. The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the office
bearers of the trade union.
? 4 If a trade union has been in existence for more than one year prior
to application of its registration, a financial statement showing its
assets and liabilities prepared in the prescribed form has also to be
submitted to the Registrar along with the applica?tion for registration.
? 5. Besides, every application must be accompanied with a copy of
Rules of Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules:
? 1. Name of the trade union;
? 2. The whole of the objects for which the trade union has been
established;
? 3. The whole of the purposes for which the general funds of a trade
union shall be applicable.
? 4. The maintenance of a list of the members of the trade union and
adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers
and members of trade union;
? 5.?The?payment?of?a?subscription?by?members?of?the?trade?union?
which?shall?be?not?less?than
?(i)?one?rupee?per?annum?for?rural?workers;
(ii)?three?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?other?unorganised?sectors;?
and
(iii)?twelve?rupees?per?annum?for?workers?in?any?other?case;
? 6.?The?manner?in?which?rules?will?be?amended?varied?and/or?
rescinded;
? 7.?The?manner?in?which?the?members?of?the?executive?and?the?other?
office-bearers?of?the?trade?union?shall?be?appointed?and?removed;
? 8. The manner in which the funds of the trade union shall be kept and
audited and inspection of the books of accounts by the office bearers
and members of the trade union be made;
? 9. The conditions under which any member shall be entitled to have
benefits under the rules and under which fine or forfeiture shall be
imposed on the members; and The manner in which the trade union
shall be dissolved.
3. Rights and Duties of Registrar:
? Section 7 of the Act empowers the Registrar of Trade Union to make,
if required so, further enquiries on receipt of an application for
registration to fully satisfy himself that the application complies with
the provisions of section
? However, such enquiries can be made only from the application and
not from any other source.
4. Legal Status of Registered Trade Union:
? Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate body by
the name under which it is registered.
? A registered trade union shall have perpetual succession and its
common seal.
? A regis?tered trade union is an entity distinct from the members of
which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys power to contract
and to hold property both moveable and immoveable and to sue and
be sued by the name in which it is registered.
?Cancellation of registration.
1) The registration and the certificate of registration of an organization
shall be cancelled by the Registrar
(a) at the request of the organization upon its dissolution, after making
such inquiries as the registrar considers necessary;
(b) by order of the Industrial Relations Court, if the organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization for any reason that cannot be remedied.
(2) Whenever the Registrar reasonably believes that an organization is
unable to continue to function as a trade union or employers'
organization or has ceased to exist, he or she shall notify the
organization in writing that cancellation of the registration is being
considered, state the reasons and give the organization 30 days to
show cause why its registration should not be cancelled.
Structure of Trade union in India
In India trade unions are affiliated by two types of organization.
? The national federation
? The federation of union
? The National Federation
? The national Federation is the apex trade union that brings
coordination in the activities of different trade union.
? These are politically learned and the leadership to such federation are
provided by politicians .
? They act as a coordinating agency for various trade union under their
control.
The federation of union
? Various union combines together to form federation of union for the
purpose of gaining more solidarity and strength.
? Such federation can take collective action when needed.
? INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha,
? Bharatiya Mazdoorsabha,
? NATIONAL Labor Organization
? All India BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION,
? All India Railway Men association,
? All India electricity employee association.
Union Problems
? Trade union leadership
? Multiple unions
? Union rivalry
? Finance
? Other problems
? Literacy
? Uneven growth
? Low membership
? Heterogeneous nature of labour
? Lack of interest
? Absence of paid office bearers
Assignment
? Explain various rights and responsibilities of TUs.
? Write a note on employee relations in IT sector
? Visit following links and get ready for case study given
? https://www.youtube.com/create_channel
? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xj1sxVPWA4
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
This post was last modified on 18 February 2020