TRADE UNION AND EMPLOYE WRIGHT ...

Trade union and employee rights.

Trade unions are created by employee based on their requirements but if you look into their model or activities they all are formed to full fill their needs and protect their rights from company owners or from the governing parties and the most important thing is to protect and improve the good working condition inside of their working environment and continue good work-life balance for them. these trade unions are nowadays beginning inside of the organizations on a small level and have grown into a worldwide movement for achieving social justice, economic equality and preservation of democratic values of life.





The Trade Union Act 1926

"Any combination, whether temporary or permanent, formed primarily for the purpose of regulating the relations between workmen and employers, or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers, and for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business and includes any federation of two or more trade unions."

This union is a starter based on improving the good working conditions of employment for its members. The word call trade union is restricted here only to mean the association of workers. According to Edwin B. Flippo “, a trade union  is an organization of workers created  to promote, protect and improve, through collective action the social, economic, and political interests of its members.” The economic aspect relates to wages, hours of work, working conditions, etc.

Trade Unions are important for workers for following reasons

  • To ensure a better working condition for workers.
  • To protect the salary bonus for the workers from the profits of the enterprise/company
  • To protect their job and resist against the schemes of management which reduce employment opportunities.
  • To give legal protection and assistance to workers in connection with disputes regarding work and payment of wages.
  • To inculcate discipline, self-respect and dignity among workers.
  • To ensure opportunities for promotion and training.
  • To secure organizational efficiency and high productivity.
  • To generate a committed industrial workforce for improving the productivity of the system.


Srilanka context of a trade union.

As we learnt above trade unions are more important in any country Srilanka having an average 7.2 billion labour forces across the country  from that 37% are based on the agriculture and their average working hours per day Is 8 hours and (excluding rest and meal breaks) and numbers of a registered functioning  trade unions are averagely 1500 (Source - Department of Labour)

In Srilanka, we all know that based on the professional trade unions are formed one of the larger trade union in Sri Lanka is Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) they start as a trade union and now they have become a political party and be one of the biggest leading party in Srilanka for any government and they are the kingmakers in Sri Lanka this includes the all the state working people we can see so many time they get together for there rights and they fight for it,. recently we saw they fought for 1000/= day salary requesting from the state owners and the government and they won that and its become one of the key thing in the last election. same as we all know the one of the biggest improvising trade union is doctors trade union we name it as s GMOA they also as a trade union playing a vital role in Srilanka they fight for their rights and some common issues all so like SAITM issue.




Conclusion.

Trade unions are formed in the social purpose of protection for labour rights and maintaining of good securing improvements in pay, benefits, working conditions, or social and political status through collective bargaining. based on the time to T.U are the starter of protecting their rights from business owners or from the government it has become a protector for them in SriLankan context we can see five major groups are formed as a trade union and then its become a leading political party how has good influencing power to any government and same as a Profesional trade union how to fight for rights of their and the society.


Reference

Your Article Library. 2020. Trade Union: It’S Meaning And Definition | Trade Union. [online] Available at: <https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/trade-unions/trade-union-its-meaning-and-definition-trade-union/26118> [Accessed 13 December 2020].

Your Article Library. 2020. Trade Union: Meaning, Objectives And Benefits. [online] Available at: <https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/trade-unions/trade-union-meaning-objectives-and-benefits/90560> [Accessed 13 December 2020].

2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23548484_Trade_unions_and_collective_bargaining> [Accessed 13 December 2020].

The Economic Times. 2020. What Is Trade Union? Definition Of Trade Union, Trade Union Meaning - The Economic Times. [online] Available at: <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/Trade-Union> [Accessed 13 December 2020].

Comments

  1. Pasan WijesekaraDecember 13, 2020 at 6:03 AM

    Employers always need to focus on their employees rights but the same time employees also need to deliver the expectations of the employers as well. Related topic in concern of my own trade.

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  2. Hemanthi Maheshika AbeysekaraDecember 13, 2020 at 9:29 AM

    Trade Unions help to protect employee rights and they are the people who negotiate with employer to ensure both employer and employee get benefitted.

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  3. M. R. M NishakDecember 13, 2020 at 10:01 AM

    Unions collect information about the preferences of all workers leading the firm to choose the best mix of employee compensation.

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  4. Lakshan GanegodaDecember 13, 2020 at 10:12 AM

    Trade unions are needed where there is no policy or procedure to represent the employee. Organizations can use their talent strategically to improve both themselves and the organization

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  5. NafeesDecember 13, 2020 at 10:18 AM

    A good HRM system will be a solution for the trade unions as the trade unions are being encroached by politics, thus not serving the purpose

    ReplyDelete

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