THE TRADE UNIONS’ ACT, 1926

By: Mudit M. Saxena

Dept. of Mech. Engg.
• A trade union, trades union (British English) or labor union
(American English) is an organization of workers that have banded
together to achieve common goals such as better working
conditions.

• The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer
on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts
(collective bargaining) with employers. This may include the
negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules
governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits,
workplace safety and policies.

• The agreements negotiated by the union leaders are binding on the

members and the employer and in some cases on other non-
member workers.
• Originating in Europe, trade unions became popular in
many countries during the Industrial Revolution, when
the lack of skill necessary to perform most jobs shifted
employment bargaining power almost completely to
the employers' side, causing many workers to be
mistreated and underpaid.

• Trade union organizations may be composed of

individual workers, professionals, past workers, or the
unemployed. The most common, but by no means
only, purpose of these organizations is "maintaining or
improving the conditions of their employment".[
• OBJECT: To provide for the registration of trade unions and to
define law relating to
• registered trade unions.
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• APPLICABILITY: It extends to the whole of India.
•
• TRADE UNIONS: means any combination whether temporary or
permanent formed primarly for the purpose of regulating the
relations between workmen and employers for
• imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or
business, and includes any
• federation of two or more trade unions.