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Unit 13: Industrial Relations

Advantages to Labour Notes

Labour acquires mainly following benefits from trade unions:
1. Reducing the tendency of labour exploitation.
2. It leads to unity in labour force.
3. Open the door of overall development of labour.
4. Labour get the opportunity to participate in management.

5. Increase in efficiency due to improvement in working conditions.
6. Labour gets economic and entertainment facilities.

Advantages to Employer and Industrialists

Industrialists derive following advantages from trade unions:
1. Union can help in avoiding conflict by collective talks and collective bargaining.
2. Union helps to pacify conflict at the time of industrial conflict.
3. Union promotes the feeling of unity cooperation and fraternity which lead to the
co-operation at the time of their work.
4. Unions provide education training and entertainment facilities to labour which gives the
industry a trained conscious and effective work force.
Advantages to Society and Country

Labour unions are the representatives of labour who put the problem of ideas, feeling and
welfare of labour before the country. In this way, society and the country understand the manpower
of the country, which makes possible for the government to make labour polices labour laws
which are in coherence with the conservation and prosperity of manpower in the country. In
short, we can say that unions promote productivity, labour co-operation, etc. to make a practical
ground for the idea of a permanent and conscious labour force for the overall development of
the country.

13.5.4 Weaknesses of Trade Unions

1. Many trade unions are small and have a small number of members. They are therefore,
not in a position to engage the services of exports to advise and guide them and help them
to face the challenge of employers.
2. Political leaders have acquired control over trade union activities. As a result, trade unions
are not as strong as they should be.
3. Trade unions now have become the centre of political activity rather than workers welfare.

4. Small unions have weak financial position bargaining position and they are not able to
make their influence felt.
5. The government encouragement of weak and dependent trade unions.
6. Trade unions which have grown very slowly have not developed as voluntary
organizations because of:
(a) Moral idealism about goals and optimism about achieving them.

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