Trade Unions

Anatomy of trade union: Collective bargaining, realising workers' strength

Since India is a member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), it has to provide representation to the workers in various forums that involve tripartite discussions

Samsung willing to settle wages with workers, rejects talks with 3rd party

Gopalan urged workers to call off "illegal" strike, return to work, and come forward for talks

Trade unions divided over the new employment linked incentive schemes

Labour ministry said that the ELI schemes have been designed to encourage businesses to generate more employment as well as to provide meaningful and sustainable jobs for the youth of the country

Rajasthan investment summit: Trade body suggests measures for success

"We do not want this to happen again so we have suggested a few things to the state government to make the upcoming event successful," executive president of ARTIA, Prem Biyani said

Trade unions demand scrapping of labour codes, restoration of OPS

Trade Unions also suggested stopping the privatisation of public sector undertakings

1.5K Tata Steel staff in Britain to start indefinite strike from July 8

Unite pointed out that Labour has pledged 3 billion pound for UK steel if elected next month, a commitment secured by the trade union

Toyota gives no answer to union demands at second round of wage talks

Toyota has not decided yet when it will respond to the union's wage rise request, Takanori Azuma, the automaker's chief human resources officer, said on Wednesday

Trade unions have called for one day strike on February 16, says CIL

Coal India Ltd on Tuesday said central trade unions have called for a one-day strike on February 16 at the company and its subsidiaries. State-owned CIL accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal output. In a regulatory filing, the company said the trade unions have called for the strike but did not disclose the reason for the proposed strike. "CIL is in receipt of strike notice regarding one day All India Strike in entire CIL / Subsidiaries on 16.02.2024 from CTUs (Central Trade Unions) - HMS / AITUC / INMF (INTUC) / CITU," the filing said.

Tesla is raising worker wages as auto union tries to raise its EV plants

Factory workers at Tesla have been told to expect pay raises this year, a move that comes as the United Auto Workers union tries to organize the electric vehicle maker's U.S. plants. The UAW said Thursday that Tesla workers have told the union about company statements on the raises, which did not give details about the size of the increases. After winning strong contracts with Detroit's three automakers last year, the union has embarked on an effort to organize all nonunion auto plants in the U.S., including Tesla's assembly and battery factories in Texas, California and Nevada. The Tesla raises come after nearly all companies with nonunion auto plants announced worker pay increases shortly after the UAW contracts were ratified. The UAW said its organizing drive will target more than a dozen U.S. plants run by Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW and Volvo. Tesla also is on the list, along with EV startups Rivian and Lucid. UAW President Shawn F

Trade unions witnessing decline across the world, says senior economist

Speaking on the problems faced by trade unions, Bardhan said that an increase in the informal labour force is leading to a higher degree of labour fragmentation

Trade unions call for PDS universalisation, scrapping monetisation pipeline

To intensify their agitation from December onwards

Declining trend: Trade unions that filed returns hit a record low in 2019

Experts call for fresh exercise to determine extent of unionisation

Political funding: Unions decry govt's move to derecognise postal unions

RN Parashar, generel secretary, CCGEW, said they will take the matter to the judiciary

Trade unions condemn order prohibiting govt staff to go on strike

Following the DoPT order, the Department of animal husbandry and dairying had issued an order cautioning its employees of participating in the protests

Social security, labour migration to top discussions at first L-20 meeting

The two-day meet will feature leaders and representatives of trade union centres of G-20 countries and other guest countries

EPFO link programmed to deny benefits of SC order on higher pension: Union

The letter also highlighted "practical problems" being faced by the pensioners who are opting for higher pension options and said that the commissioner should take immediate action

Coal India, trade unions awaiting govt's nod on 19% wage hike pact

Coal India Ltd (CIL) and trade unions are awaiting the govt's approval for a wage agreement that recommends a 19% minimum guaranteed benefit to 238k non-executive employees of the miner

UK government meets trade unions but fails to end wave of strikes

UK government ministers met trade union leaders on Monday but fell short of ending a wave of strikes that has hobbled the rail network and strained the overburdened health system. There were small signs of progress but no breakthrough after a meeting between Health Secretary Steve Barclay and health care unions. Other ministers met with railway unions that have staged months of strikes, and teaching unions considering classroom walkouts. Barclay said the talks had made progress and the government wanted "to work constructively with the trade unions. There was definitely a change of tone today," said Sarah Gorton of UNISON, which represents some health workers. However Onay Kasab, negotiator for the Unite union, said the talks had been a missed opportunity. Unions said strikes by nurses and ambulance staff planned for this month would go ahead. Nurses are due to walk out on Wednesday, and ambulance workers next week, while junior doctors are voting on whether to strike later this ..

Traders' body supports Oppn's Pune bandh against remark on Shivaji Maharaj

A traders' body in Pune city of Maharashtra has decided to extend support to the December 13 'bandh' called given by the opposition parties as a mark of protest against Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's remarks on Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Sambhaji Brigade and some other outfits have given the bandh call. Fatehchand Ranka, president of the Federation of Traders Associations of Pune (FATP), said in a release on Thursday that the office-bearers of the three parties and Smabhaji Brigade had appealed to the traders' body to support the bandh called for condemning the governor's statements. "Following the appeal made by these parties, an internal meeting of all the members of the federation was organised and it was decided to support the bandh by keeping the shops closed till 3 pm on Tuesday," Ranka said. Last month, governor Koshyari kicked up a row as he termed Chhatrapati ..

Trade union bats for separate business management service cadre for PSUs

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) wants creation of a separate business management service cadre like IAS, IFS to manage the public sector units (PSUs)