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Abhijeet S
Industry level variations:
In the current scenario in India, labor and unions in the more labor-intensive sectors face considerably more uncertain and insecure times than their counterparts in the more capital-intensive industries.
Several industries in the jute and textile sectors are near closure because of being labor intensive. It is in the textile and jute industries that centralized and traditional trade unions play a dominant role and they have not achieved anything to better the lot of the jute and textile industry workers.
On the other hand, the majority of the plant-based “independent” unions are located in the more capital-intensive industries, and union bargaining in several public sectors (such as transportation and banking) is high due to its specific market characteristics defined by state monopoly.
Several other reasons can be outlined for the increasing dissension and fragmentation that characterizes the trade union movement of the organized sector in the public sector enterprises today.
Among the many reasons, the ones most commonly cited are the closeness of trade unions to political parties, having a narrow support base, multiplicity of representative unions, centralized decision-making, ad-hoc management, obsolete strategies for fighting repression, external and over-aged leaders, personalized and power-oriented leadership, confrontationist attitudes, non-existent second-tier leadership, and negligible gender representation.
In the current scenario in India, labor and unions in the more labor-intensive sectors face considerably more uncertain and insecure times than their counterparts in the more capital-intensive industries.
Several industries in the jute and textile sectors are near closure because of being labor intensive. It is in the textile and jute industries that centralized and traditional trade unions play a dominant role and they have not achieved anything to better the lot of the jute and textile industry workers.
On the other hand, the majority of the plant-based “independent” unions are located in the more capital-intensive industries, and union bargaining in several public sectors (such as transportation and banking) is high due to its specific market characteristics defined by state monopoly.
Several other reasons can be outlined for the increasing dissension and fragmentation that characterizes the trade union movement of the organized sector in the public sector enterprises today.
Among the many reasons, the ones most commonly cited are the closeness of trade unions to political parties, having a narrow support base, multiplicity of representative unions, centralized decision-making, ad-hoc management, obsolete strategies for fighting repression, external and over-aged leaders, personalized and power-oriented leadership, confrontationist attitudes, non-existent second-tier leadership, and negligible gender representation.