What are the evil effects of outside leadership in trade unions?
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Though trade unions are of various sizes with thousands of members, yet, most of the unions are still characterized by their small size and small membership. The average membership per union in India is less than 800, as compared with the U.K (17,600) the USA (9,500) [3]. The small size of the unions is due to the following factors as the fact that any seven workers may from a union under the Trade Union Act and get in registered has resulted in large number of small unions, the structure of the trade unions organisation in the country is in most cases, the factory or the unit of employment; so whenever employees in a particular factory or mine are organised, a new unions is formed. Unionisation in India started with the big employees and gradually spread to smaller employees [4]. This process is still continuing and has pulled down the average membership. Though the number of unions and union membership are increasing, average membership is declining.
The outside leadership in the trade unions is getting worse day by day.
It not only creates a lot of problems but it becomes critical to tackle the situations.
The views of the outsiders are different and it becomes mandatory to follow them or else they won’t let the union function properly.
This results in a lot of chaos and confusion thereby affecting the smooth working.