DO WE NEED TRADE UNIONS?



Movement of organised labour was started in the 19th century in Great Britain. Trade Unions in India were believed to have existed in 600 BC and before. India did large trading of spices, metals, textiles etc with other parts of the world. Patliputra, Ujjain, Nalanda, Pujar, Mathura etc were the prime trading centres at that time. Those Trade Unions must have meant for the trades. However the modern Trade Unions for the collective bargaining came into being in the British India in 1850 in Textile Mills of Bombay and in Calcutta in 1854. The wages of the industrial workers were uneven and far below the daily needs. These situations prompted the need for collective bargaining. Since independence Trade Unions have flourished in India. Trade Unions have become the bargaining tools of political parties of our country.

In today's India workers have enough statutory establishments for the redressal of their grievance; no need for collective bargaining or application of force of any nature. Of late our Trade Unions have brought our state into a negative economic growth. Hundreds of industries have been driven away from the state. Finally our exchequer has reached to near empty state. KSRTC is the prime example for the dormant performance of our Trade Unions. 

Now India intending for an economic development in industrial sector we must take a decision to do away with the Trade Unions in India. In fact independent Trade Unions would have been useful for the workers as well as the industries. Since they have been encroached by political parties they are not in a position help anyone other than causing destruction.

K V George 


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