This presentation contains all the information of trade union methods, trade union is a most important topic in industrial management. It have four methods and all the methods are fully explained.
1. TRADE UNION-
METHODS OF TRADE
UNION
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2. TABLE OF CONTENT
• What is Trade union
• Methods of trade union
i. Collective Bargaining
ii. Political Action
iii. Welfare Measures
iv. Industrial Action
3. WHAT IS TRADE UNION
A trade union is an association of workers formed with the object of
improving the conditions of workers. It is formed for protecting the
interests of workers. Workers have little bargaining capacity when they
are unorganized. In fact, trade union movement began against the
exploitation of workers by certain managements under the capitalist
system.
4. METHODS OF TRADE UNION
Method 1: Collective Bargaining:
Collective bargaining is the process in which working people, through their
unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of
employment, including pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety
policies, ways to balance work and family, and more. Collective bargaining is a
way to solve workplace problems. It is also the best means for raising wages
in America. Indeed, through collective bargaining, working people in unions
have higher wages, better benefits and safer workplaces.
The collective bargaining as a trade union method has been widely resorted to
in almost all industrialized countries of the world, particularly the USA, the UK
and most other European countries where strong well-organized unions with
large membership have been firmly entrenched.
5. Method 2: Political Action:
The political action method is intended to benefit workers in general or a
substantial portion of the working class rather than protecting the interests of
the members only. In quite a number of cases, different trade unions combine
to form a common platform to pressurise the government to refrain from or
withdraw such economic, industrial or labour policies and programmes which
are detrimental to the interests of workers. There are also instances where
trade unions have utilized the services of eminent political personalities in
getting specific industrial disputes settled in favor of union members.
Exerting pressure on the government for enacting protective and pro-labour
laws has been the most widely used method adopted by early trade unions.
6. Method 3: Welfare Measures:
Many trade unions with sound financial conditions, particularly the craft
unions, provided certain welfare measures for the benefit of their members.
The benefits more usually provided financial assistance in the event of
sickness and disablement of the members and in the event of death of the
members, assistance including funeral expenses to the family.
In India, majority of the unions including the big ones are not in a position to
arrange for these benefits out of their funds. Only a few unions such as the
Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad and Tata Workers’ Union, Jamshedpur
have been engaged in providing some measure of welfare amenities to their
members. These benefits are merely in the form of educational, recreational,
cultural and limited medical facilities.
7. Method 4: Industrial Action:
Trade unions generally consider the right to strike as one of their basic rights.
They contend that collective bargaining without the right to strike has no
significance. Trade unions, no doubt, consider strike as the most powerful
weapon in their armoury, they also resort to some other forms of industrial
action to pressurise the employers and the government for the fulfilment of
their objectives.
The more common of these are demonstration, picketing and boycott. In
many cases, these supplement strike action, but in some cases these are
resorted to independently. Strikes and other forms of industrial action are
organised not only in the situation of industrial disputes, but also against
government’s anti-labour policies and programmes. In India, general strikes
or bandhs organised by central unions, mostly in combination, against
government’s liberalised economic and industrial policies and measures
initiated in 1991, became a regular feature during subsequent years.
