Trade Unions Act

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Trade unions can be best defined as an ideal platform for the workers to raise their voice against the exploitation of their rights. Started in a small manner by the proletariat class in the ancient times, trade unions became an indispensable part of the modern corporate world. Trade unions have a repute of increase the pressure in the capitalist society but at the same time, they play a constructive part in it.

India is the abode of innumerous acts and regulations for the benefit of the trade unions which bestow due powers to the working class. For the safeguard of the rights of the labour class, Indian Government came up with the Indian Trade Union Act in 1926. This act summarizes all modalities pertaining to registration of trade union to decision of trade related disputes. Besides defining the role of such union bodies in the corporate world, this act sets controlling mechanisms for the same. This act sets guidelines for both the workers and the industrialists.

The coming of complexities demanded amendment of the act and these came in a series of :

1. The Indian Trade Unions (Amendment) Act, 1928, 1960, 1964
2. The Central Labour Laws (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 1970.