Ghosh, Piyali and Nandan, Shefali and Gupta, Ashish
(2009)
The Changing Roles Of Trade Unions In India:
A Case Study Of National Thermal Power
Corporation (Ntpc), Unchahar.
Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 14 (1).
pp. 1-21.
ISSN 1394-2603
Abstract
Trade unions are a major component of the system of modern industrial relations in any
nation, each having, in their constitution, their own set of objectives or goals to achieve.
Change in the political, social and educational environment has seen them rechristened
as a forum that protects and furthers workers' interests and improves the quality of life of
workers, enlarging their traditional roles of establishing terms and conditions of
employment. This paper focuses on plant level trade unions, particularly those of the
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Unchahar plant, one of the largest and
best Public Sector Undertakings of India. This exploratory study of the different trade
unions operational at the Unchahar plant will also highlight their ideologies, objectives
and structures. We aim to capture the changing paradigms in the roles of plant-level
unions: from maintaining good industrial relations, once considered their primary role,
they now work actively to improve the quality of life of workers, a role earlier considered
to be secondary.
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