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  Organized labour and economic liberalization. India: Past, present and future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the private sector, trade unions have adapted their structures in response to the decentralization of industrial relations, but these adjustments are painful and difficult in the public sector.
The central trade unions are uniting to pre-empt a government attempt to switch to a 10-year wage settlement in public sector units instead of the present 5-year duration.
The central trade unions are in a dilemma for the first time in the jute industry: on the face of it, they oppose any kind of bipartite settlement by insisting on an industry-wide agreement at tripartite level.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/52a/017.html   (18704 words)

  
 Trade Unions (background)
Trade unions are unique organisations whose role is variously interpreted and understood by different interest groups in the society.
Trade unions through industrial action (such as protests and strikes) and political action (influencing Government policy) establish minimum economic and legal conditions and restrain abuse of labour wherever the labour is organised.
Trade unions are also seen as moral institutions, which will uplift the weak and downtrodden and render them the place, the dignity and justice they deserve.
www.bms.org.in /htm/trade_unions.htm   (5425 words)

  
 GSD: C. Candland
Indian trade unions have been able to halt privatization in the public sector and to obstruct labour law reform, but face an altogether different challenge in the increasing informalization of employment and deregulation of the labour market.
Trade unions have raised concern in national economic policy debates that the public sector is being treated by some as the private domain of select civil servants, politicians, and businesspeople.
Indian trade union centers are negotiating with government the rehabilitation of the cotton textile, jute, chemical, engineering, electricity generation and distribution, and road transport industries.
www.antenna.nl /~waterman/candland.html   (7699 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
These centres of trade unions are largely leader-centred rarely member-centred.therefore when leaders change their political allegiances they take their own trade union followers also along with them.
Each trade union centre claims several times more than what is published by the government after verfication done by the Labour Ministry through its administrative net work of Regional Labour Commissioners based in the states of Indian Union.
The national trade union centres have also been separately placed in the web site with historical background, their membership, names of their industrial federations, and with all the available date on the centres.
www.global-labour.com /ntuc.htm   (938 words)

  
 rediff.com: Trade unions threaten countrywide agitation
Disappointed over the outcome of the Indian Labour Conference, leading trade unions Sunday threatened a countrywide agitation against the ongoing privatisation, amendment of labour laws and the removal of Quantitative Restrictions by the central government.
In a joint statement, the central trade unions also expressed shock over Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's statement about employers' claim that unemployment and poverty have gone down in the liberalised regime and said it was "totally unfounded and baseless".
The unions would also oppose any move of changing labour laws in favour of employers and policies leading to severe aggravation of joblessness and unemployment, the release said adding it would also demand immediate enactment of comprehensive legislation of agricultural workers.
www.rediff.com /news/2001/may/20union.htm   (208 words)

  
 All India Central Council of Trade Unions
And for the working class, the new policies have led to large-scale disappearance of jobs, extensive erosion of wages and working conditions and severe curtailment of basic trade union rights.
Trade union leaders from some foreign countries are also expected to participate.
It is determined to put up a consistent fight in defence and for the extension of the rights and dignity of all workers and strive for the establishment of a socialist order in the country through the complete democratisation of political, economic and socio-cultural life.
www.cpiml.org /pgs/frontorg/aicctu/aicctu.htm   (809 words)

  
 Organized labour and economic liberalization. India: Past, present and future: Discussion Papers: Publications: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
From a policy perspective in democratic and pluralistic societies, the objective must be to minimize the "monopoly" effects and to strengthen the "collective voice" effects.
Finally, "union work rules", embedded in contract provisions often lower the productivity of both labour and capital by creating inflexibilities at the workplace.
As these unions "traded off" increased wages against employment growth, and as employers shifted to "outsourcing" from non-union sites, the traditional party-based unions found their potential recruitment terrain both challenged and curtailed.
www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inst/papers/1999/dp105   (17083 words)

  
 Trade Unions
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The trade Unions Act, 1926 provides for registration of trade unions with a view to render lawful organisation of labour to enable collective bargaining.
A Trade Union is a combination whether temporary or permanent, formed for regulating the relations not only between workmen and employers but also between workmen and workmen or between employers and employers.
helplinelaw.com /docs/tradeunions/index.php   (372 words)

  
 Indian National Trade Union Congress --  Encyclopædia Britannica
INTUC was established in 1947 in cooperation with the Indian National Congress, which favoured a less militant union movement than the All-India Trade Union Congress.
INTUC was established in 1947 in cooperation with the Indian National Congress, which favoured a less militant union movement than the All-India Trade Union...
The Indian National Army (INA) was formed during World War II by Indian nationalists and prisoners of war dedicated to winning India's independence from the British Empire.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9042290   (672 words)

  
 Iraqi Federation of Workers' Trade Unions (IFTU): IFTU gains support in Europe.
The IFTU delegation held a number of; meetings with various trade union organizations present at the 8th conference, including the Indian General Secretary of the Centre of Indian trade Unions Mr.
Both trade union organizations invited the IFTU to visit their countries and meet with their trade union centres.
The IFTU delegation was invited to Italy from 26-29th April by the Confederacione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) and the Federacione Impiegati Operais Metallugici Nationale (FIOM).
www.iraqitradeunions.org /archives/000039.html   (555 words)

  
 Indian Unions Oppose War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We call upon trade unions and workers everywhere to support these demands in order to avert a catastrophic escalation in violence and terrorism worldwide.
Trade Union Solidarity Committee, c/o Blue Star Employees Federation, 6 Neelkanth Apartments, Gokuldas Pasta Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai 400 014.
The Trade Union Solidarity Committee (TUSC) is a co-ordination of about 25 independent/unaffiliated/internal unions in the Bombay region.
www.labournet.net /world/0110/india1.html   (448 words)

  
 Labour Unions in the Asia Pacific Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
National and Local Trade Unions and Labour Federations in Asia Pacific
general trades, sugar mills, food and allied, hotels, restaurants and affiliated, pharmaceuticals and affiliated, utility workers, agricultural workers, and others.
Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) - Katipuuang Manggagawang Pilipino (KMO)
www.caprn.bc.ca /directory/national_tu.htm   (390 words)

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