IMPORTANCE OF TRADE UNION IN INDIA

AUTHOR – ARPITA MOHAPATRA, STUDENT AT KIIT SCHOOL OF LAW

BEST CITATION – ARPITA MOHAPATRA, IMPORTANCE OF TRADE UNION IN INDIA, ILE LABOUR LAW REVIEW, 2 (1) of 2023, Pg. 01-03, APIS – 3920 – 0009 | ISSN – 2583-6161.

INTRODUCTION

Earlier the slaves were brought from other countries to work in the countries USA, UK, European countries, so there is master- servant relationship exist. But in this type of relationship there is huge exploitation of this slaves like they have no rights of their own, they were treated like dogs, they have to work long hours without getting any payment. If they tried to raise their voices they are torture even more. In India also this system existed. So to solve this type of issues labour laws are established by the Government of India.  These labour laws tried to regulate the relationship between the employer and employee in an labour organisation. It more focus on health, safety of workers, it regulated fixed working hours for labourers and it introduces the concept of collective bargaining in the labour system. It recognised labourers as human beings not as commodity. The word trade union was spell out in the Trade Union Act, 1926 as any merger between employer and employee or employee and employee or employer and employer, whether temporary or permanent formed for regulating the relationship between them or for imposition of any restriction on the terms and conditions for carrying any trade or business in which there is two or more than two trade union are involved. After World War 1 there are several labour law movement that came up. One of them is ILO (International Labour Organisation) which further lead to establishing trade unions. ILO set various labour standards and codes for regulation of labour laws in the whole world.