CHALLENGES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRADE UNION IN CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

Industrialisation provides favorable conditions for workers to come into contact with each other, to share common perceptions and to feet solidarity and sympathy for each other. The industrial way of life has brought in its wake a host of concerns and issues which have led to periodical discussions. As a result, a set of relationships in a totally different work context has been established in the meanwhile organisations grew and contributed to their viability to create a new work environment Thus, union development is necessarily related with and conditioned by the changes in the whole socio-economic set up. But the increasing complexity and dynamism of modern factory system has widened the gap between those who manage industry and those who work in it. This gives rise to conflicts in labour-management relations, resulting in strike/ lockouts, ultimately the loss of production and wages and hardships to the society.