Trade Unions
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TRADE UNIONS Industrial relations & Collective Bargaining
Defining Trade Unions
• It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of protecting and advancing the conditions of their working lives. • A trade union is an association with workmen and workmen or between workmen and employers or between employers and employers.
Trade Union Membership
• Job Security • Collective power – fair compensation • Safe & healthy work environment
Functions of trade union
1. Militant or intramural functions
• Trade union fights with employers to achieve economic interest of their members Trade union act as benefit organisations providing financial and non-financial assistance to their memebers during sickness, strikes, lockouts.
2. Fraternal or extramural functions
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Functions of trade union
3. Social function 4. Political function 5. Ancillary Function
Types of trade union
Trade Union
Purpose
Mem. Structure
Reformist Union
Revoltionary Union
Craft
Business Unions
Uplift Unions
Political unions
Industrial
Anarchist
Staff
Predatory
General Un
Hold-up
Guroiella
Industrial Relations
• As per ILO – IR deals with either the relationship between the state and employers and workers organisations or thd rlationship between the occupational org. themselves.
Approaches to IR
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Psychological Approach Sociological approach Human Relation approach Socio-ethical approach Gandhian Approach Systems Approach
• The Organisation of the Chief Labour Commissioner (C) known as Central Industrial Relations Machinery was set up in April, 1945 in pursuance of the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Labour in India and was then charged mainly with duties of prevention and settlement of industrial disputes,enforcement of labour laws and to promote welfare of workers
• Prevention and settlement of industrial disputes; • * Enforcement of Labour Laws; • * Verification of membership of Trade Unions; • * Enforcement of Awards and Settlements; • * Conduct of inquiries into the breaches of Code of Discipline; • * Promotion of Works Committees and Workers' Participation in Management; • * Collection of statistical information; • * Defence of court cases and writ petitions arising out of • Implementation of labour laws.
Industrial dispute prevention machinery • Worker Participation • Employee Grievance redressal machinery • Voluntary Arbitration • Conciliation • Court of Enquiry • Tripartite Bodies • Adjudication
– Labour Courts – Industrial Tribunals – National Tribunals
• Collective bargaining is "a process of negotiation between management and union representatives for the purpose of arriving at mutually acceptable wages and working conditions for employees" (Boone and Kurtz, 1999, pp. 424-425). Various methods may be used in the bargaining process, but the desired outcome is always mutual acceptance by labor and management of a collective bargaining agreement or
Collective bargaining
1. Preparation of Negotiation 2. Negotiation 3. Contract Administration
Worker’s Participation
The concept of worker’s participation in management implies a formal method of providing an opportunity for every member of the organisation to contribute his brain and ingenuity as well as his physical efforts to the improvement of organizational effectiveness.
Worker’s Participation
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Informative participation Consultative Participation Associative Participation Administrative Participation Decisive Participation
Defining Trade Unions
• It is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of protecting and advancing the conditions of their working lives. • A trade union is an association with workmen and workmen or between workmen and employers or between employers and employers.
Trade Union Membership
• Job Security • Collective power – fair compensation • Safe & healthy work environment
Functions of trade union
1. Militant or intramural functions
• Trade union fights with employers to achieve economic interest of their members Trade union act as benefit organisations providing financial and non-financial assistance to their memebers during sickness, strikes, lockouts.
2. Fraternal or extramural functions
•
Functions of trade union
3. Social function 4. Political function 5. Ancillary Function
Types of trade union
Trade Union
Purpose
Mem. Structure
Reformist Union
Revoltionary Union
Craft
Business Unions
Uplift Unions
Political unions
Industrial
Anarchist
Staff
Predatory
General Un
Hold-up
Guroiella
Industrial Relations
• As per ILO – IR deals with either the relationship between the state and employers and workers organisations or thd rlationship between the occupational org. themselves.
Approaches to IR
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Psychological Approach Sociological approach Human Relation approach Socio-ethical approach Gandhian Approach Systems Approach
• The Organisation of the Chief Labour Commissioner (C) known as Central Industrial Relations Machinery was set up in April, 1945 in pursuance of the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Labour in India and was then charged mainly with duties of prevention and settlement of industrial disputes,enforcement of labour laws and to promote welfare of workers
• Prevention and settlement of industrial disputes; • * Enforcement of Labour Laws; • * Verification of membership of Trade Unions; • * Enforcement of Awards and Settlements; • * Conduct of inquiries into the breaches of Code of Discipline; • * Promotion of Works Committees and Workers' Participation in Management; • * Collection of statistical information; • * Defence of court cases and writ petitions arising out of • Implementation of labour laws.
Industrial dispute prevention machinery • Worker Participation • Employee Grievance redressal machinery • Voluntary Arbitration • Conciliation • Court of Enquiry • Tripartite Bodies • Adjudication
– Labour Courts – Industrial Tribunals – National Tribunals
• Collective bargaining is "a process of negotiation between management and union representatives for the purpose of arriving at mutually acceptable wages and working conditions for employees" (Boone and Kurtz, 1999, pp. 424-425). Various methods may be used in the bargaining process, but the desired outcome is always mutual acceptance by labor and management of a collective bargaining agreement or
Collective bargaining
1. Preparation of Negotiation 2. Negotiation 3. Contract Administration
Worker’s Participation
The concept of worker’s participation in management implies a formal method of providing an opportunity for every member of the organisation to contribute his brain and ingenuity as well as his physical efforts to the improvement of organizational effectiveness.
Worker’s Participation
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Informative participation Consultative Participation Associative Participation Administrative Participation Decisive Participation
