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TRADE UNIONS

BY:
CHARU CHANDNA
13MBA011
Trade Union means a combination formed for the purpose of
regulating the relations not only between workmen and
employers but also between workmen and workmen or
between employers and employers
-Trade Union Act 1926

TRADE UNION
INTUC
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF
INTUC
INDIAN NATIONAL TRADE UNION CONGRESS (INTUC) was established
on 3rd May 1947 as a federation of Trade Unions by Congress stalwart
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
Since independence of our country Indian National Trade Union Congress
and affiliated unions always stood at No. 1 position in all sectors /
organizations.
It is a movement which has a long history of struggle for the cause of
workers.
INTUC has always remained in the centre stage of all major trade union
movement in the country since its inception and it has earned a high
degree of respect among the trade union fraternity all over the world.


to secure an effective and complete organization of all categories of
workers, including agriculture labour,
to assist in the formation of trade unions
to secure speedy improvement of conditions of work and life and of the
status of the workers in industry and society
to obtain for the works various measures of social security including
adequate provision in respect of accident, maternity, sickness, old age
and unemployment
to secure suitable legislative enactments for the conditions of the
workers and to ensure proper enforcement
to develop in the workers a sense of responsibility towards industry and
community, and to raise the workers; standard of efficiency and
discipline.
OBJECTIVES OF INTUC
ALL INDIA TRADE UNION
CONGRESS
The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was founded in 1920
with Lala Lajpat Rai as its first president. Up to 1945
Congressmen, Socialists, Communists worked in the AITUC
which was the central trade union organisation of workers of
India. Subsequently the trade union movement got split on
political lines.
The membership of the AITUC is 3.6 million. The unions affiliated
to AITUC are from textile, engineering, coal, steel, road
transport, electricity board and of unorganised sector such as
beedi, construction and head-load workers, anganwadi, local
bodies and handloom.
The General Secretary of the AITUC is Gurudas gupta, the Indian
policitian and leader of the Communist Party of India. The AITUC
is a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions.

ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF AITUC
To establish a socialist state in India
To socialize and nationalize the means of production,
distribution and exchange as far as possible
To ameliorate the economic and social conditions of the working
class
To watch, promote, safeguard and further the interests, rights
and privileges of the workers in all matters relating to their
employment
To secure and maintain for the workers the freedom of speech,
press, association, assembly, the right of strike, and right to
work and maintenance.
To abolish political or economic advantage based on caste,
creed, community, race or religion; to fight against all forms of
social oppression and injustice
OBJECTIVES OF AITUC

United Trade Union
Congress
United Trade Union Congress was founded at an All India Labour
Conference in Calcutta, May 1, 1949. The founding president was
professor K.T. Shah, a member of the Constituent
Assembly from Bombay, and the founding general secretary
was Mrinal Kanti Bose, a former AITUC president from Bengal.
UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party.Abani
Roy is the general secretary of UTUC.According to provisional
statistics from the Ministry of Labour, UTUC had a membership
of 383,946 in 2002.
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF UTUC

to establish a socialist society in India;

to establish a workers and peasants state in India;

to nationalize and socialize the means of production, distribution and
exchange;

to safeguard and promote the interests, rights, and privileges to the
workers in all matters, social, cultural, economic and political;

to secure and maintain workers freedom of speech, freedom of
press,freedom of association, freedom of assembly, right to strike, right
to workor maintenance and the right to social security

OBJECTIVES OF UTUC
BMS
The circumstances in which BHARATIYA MAZDOOR SANGH
(BMS) came into existence in the trade union field of India have
shaped its significant role in the trade union movement.
BMS was founded on 23rd of July, 1955 the day being the birth
anniversary of Lok Manya Bal Gangadhar Tilak .
Formation of BMS was not the result of split in the existing
trade union organisations, unlike in the case of almost all other
trade unions. Hence it had the formidable responsibility of
building its organisational structure from the grass root level.
It started from zero having no trade union, no membership, no
activist (karyakarta), no office and no fund.


ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF BMS
To establish ultimately the Bharatiya order of society in which there
shall be Complete utilisation of manpower and resources leading to
full employment and maximum production.
To guide, direct, supervise and coordinate the activities of the
affiliated unions
To educate the labour by organising workers training classes, study
circles, guest lectures, seminars, symposia, excursions etc.
Improvement in conditions of work, life and social and industrial
status
To inculcate in the minds of the workers the spirit of service,
cooperation and dutifulness and develop in them a sense of
responsibility towards the nation in general and industry in particular.

OBJECTIVES OF BMS
NFITU
This union was founded in 1967, with the claim that this trade
union of Indiais not controlled by any of the political party,
employers or government.
NFITU has its presence in around 35 industries across 15 states in
India.
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF NFITU
To promote training in different areas of employability and facilitate
skills development in youth.
To promote and provide free education to increase employability
through skill development with the help of various government
schemes.
To create more employment opportunities and secure the rights of
workers at work.
To promote worker education and right at work place.
To enhance the coverage of welfare policies and schemes of the
government for women and children.
To strengthen the social protection of the workers .
To maintain the relationship between the workers, employers and the
Government
To promote training in different areas of employability and facilitate
skills development in youth.



OBJECTIVES OF NFITU
CITU
Centre Of Trade Union
Centre of Indian Trade Unions, CITU is a National level Trade
Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of
India (Marxist).
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest
assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong
unchallangeable presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a
good presence in West Bengal and Kerala. They have an average
presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF CITU
The CITU fights:
for the progressive improvement of wages, for reduction of working
hours
for provision of decent housing and improvement of the living
conditions of the workers
for security of full employment, right to work and against the hazards of
unemployment
for full and adequate social security legislation to protect the workers
and their families against sickness, accident and old age, providing
adequate maternity insurance and pensions for widowed mothers and
dependent children
for equal wages for equal work
for proper vocational training
for elimination of illiteracy

OBJECTIVES OF CITU
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