Industrial Relations.ppt

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Industrial Relations andTrade unions


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Industrial Relations It is the relationship between employer

and employee as a group.

The role of different parties- employers,employee and their unions, and state inmaintaining this relationship.

It is the mechanism of handlingconflicts between employer andemployee.


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Objectives (book) To develop harmonious relationship

between operatives and management.

Developing goodwill and understanding.

Develop mutuality among the interestsof these parties.

To raise productivity

To curb employee turnover andabsenteeism


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Objectives.. To avoid governments interference.

To establish and nurse the growth of anIndustrial Democracy (sharing ofprofits, managerial decisions)

To avoid industrial conflict.

To eliminate- strikes, lockouts andgheraos.


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Purposes of Industrial

Relations Development of healthy labor-

management relations

Maintenance of industrial peace

Avoidance of industrial strike

Development and growth of industrialdemocracy.


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Req. of a successful I.R. Prog. Creating trust between Employees and

Management

Top Management support.

Sound personnel policies

Adequate practices should be developed

by professionals Detailed supervisory training

Follow-up of Results


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Trade UnionsAll organizations of employees including

those of salaried and professional

workers as well as those of manualwage earners which are known toinclude among their functions that the

negotiating with their employers withthe object of regulating conditions ofemployment.


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1926 TU Act Sec. 2Any body who has the willingness to

group together for the purpose of trade

employment or terms of employment orcan be united together shall be deemedto be union and as considered in TU Act

1926.


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Features of T.U T.U are voluntary associations formed by

employees to safeguard their interests

through collective actions. Such associations can work at the level on

individual organizations as well as apexbodies (affiliated to trade unions)

Since TU are voluntary- employee has choiceto join or not, TU has choice to affiliate or notto affiliate itself with an apex body of TU.


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Reasons for joining Union Dissatisfaction of employee

Powerlessness

Union Instrumentality if one join thenothers also join.

Poor behavioral climate


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Functions of TU Functions relating to members

Functions relating to organization

Functions relating to union activities

Functions relating to society


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TU movement in India TU activities started with the formation

of Bombay Mill Association in 1890.

Followed by many other TU at Calcuttaand Madras .

First World War- ILO International

Labor Organization (1919) and Swarajmovement etc. facilitated the TUmovement

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)


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TU movement in India Formation of AITUC prompted the

formation of number of TU

In 1926 Trade Union Act was enactedto provide legal status to unionactivities and registration of unions.

1920s due to ideological differencesmany left AITUC and formed NationalTrade Union Federation.


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TU movement in India During Second World War strikes and

lockouts were banned under the

Defence of Indian Rules.After the independence, the growth of

TU followed the pattern of development

of political parties. Congress Party formed- Indian National

Trade Union Congress (INTUC) 1947


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TU movement in India Praja Socialist Party formed- Hind

Mazdoor Sabha 1948.

Then Proliferation of political parties Presently more active TU are---

INTUC- Congress party

AITUC- Communist partyCenter of Indian TU- Communist

(Marxists)

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh9 BJP etc.


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Features of TU in India

Various types of TU- primary unions,regional unions, Central TU

All major central TU are affiliated topolitical parties

Multiplicity of TU in single plant results

into inter-union rivalry

Proliferation of TU results in Smallernumber of membership and financial

constraints


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Features of TU in India

Major decision making process iscontrolled by the outsiders.

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