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Tradeunions are unique organisations whose role is variously interpreted and understood by different interest groups in the society.
Tradeunions through industrial action (such as protests and strikes) and political action (influencing Government policy) establish minimum economic and legal conditions and restrain abuse of labour wherever the labour is organised.
Tradeunions are also seen as moral institutions, which will uplift the weak and downtrodden and render them the place, the dignity and justice they deserve.
CITU general secretary M.K. Pandhe said that the existing Act was silent on the matter of recognition of unions and this lacuna was being misused by some managements.
In his view, the stipulation of seven persons in the Trade Uni on Act as the minimum requirement for the registration of a union had a logic behind it, as under the Factories Act a factory could be registered if it has a minimum workforce of 20 persons.
He said that unions needed lawyers as well as experts in different fields to be associated with them, to aid them in, for instance, productivity-related negotiations, and such persons were not normally part of the workforce of a factory.