Trade unions are associations of employees whose purpose is to regulate relations between workers and employers through collective bargaining. They serve protective, fraternal, political, and social functions for workers. Objectives of trade unions include wages, working conditions, discipline, employee-employer relations, and welfare. There are different types of trade unions like craft unions, industrial unions, and general unions. Problems faced by trade unions include leadership issues, multiple unions, lack of funding, and lack of interest. Measures to strengthen unions include forming a united labor front, developing internal leadership, and collecting membership fees.

1. PRESENTED BY:-
AKSHAY SHUKLA
CHIRAG GARG
BBA(A) 4th sem

2. CONCEPT OF TRADE UNION
Trade union is:-
 It is a association of wage earners or employees;
 Whose principle purpose is to regulate the relations
between workers and employers;
 whose leader is elected for the interests of the
employees within the workplace; and
 recognized for collective bargaining.

3. Functions Of Trade Union

4. Protective Functions-
 These functions include protecting the worker’s
interests.
 Bargain on issues like hike in wages, providing more
benefits or job security etc.
• Fraternal functions-
 These functions include providing financial and non-
financial assistance to workers during the periods of
strikes and lockouts.
 Issues like medical facilities during slackness,
provision of education, recreational and housing
facilities, provision of social and religious benefits, etc.

5. Political Functions-
These functions include affiliating the union to a
political party,
Helping the political party in collecting donations,
Seeking the help of political parties during the
periods of strikes and lock-outs.
• Social functions-
These functions include carrying out social
activities, discharging social responsibilities
through various sections of the society like
educating the customers etc.

6. OBJECTIVES OF TRADE UNION

7.  Wages and salaries
 Working conditions
 Discipline
 Employee-employer relations
 welfare
 Safeguarding organizational health

8. KINDS OF TRADE UNION

9.  Craft of skills union : To represent skilled
workers.
 Industrial unions : To represent the members of
one particular industry.
 General unions : Unions which recruit workers
from all types of industries and with any level or
range of skills e.g. – the Manufacturing Science
and Finance Union.
 White-collar unions : Represent office workers.

10. PROBLEMS OF TRADE UNION

11.  Trade union leadership
 Multiplicity of unions
 Absence of paid office bearer
 Finance
 Lack of interest
 Uneven growth
 Illiteracy

12. MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN
TRADE UNION

13.  United labour front
 Internal leadership
 Membership fees