WHAT IS TRADE UNION?
Trade union is an organized association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
In theory, law is by far the most straightforward view of what constitutes an employment to relationship. On its own, however, it is also the weakest of all theoretical perspective. Legally, the employment relationship is expressed by the concept of a contract of service which can be defined as an obligation to work or to be available for work, for which payment is promised.
The believe that there is an imbalance of power in employment relationships which gives employers an unfair advantage over employees have a long history “in reality the employment relationship is an ongoing human relationship unlike ordinary commercial contracts. It is based on an inequality of bargaining power between the competing interests of labor and capital”
Like other commercial contracts, the overall purpose of an individual employment contract is to constrain the behavior of the parties with the objective of maximizing its combined value to them over time and, in particular, to deter one party from opportunistically taken advantage of the other. Employment relationship are frequently maintained over an extended period
There are numbers of difficulties inherent in the very idea of contract. Two of which arises in its underpinning assumptions. The first of these is the assumptions that the contract is an individual own, which implies that each employee has a personal contract with the employing organization, which can be called into question by the reality of most work situations. Secondly, there is the matter of an imbalance of power in the relationship, about which the employment contract is notoriously silent. This is underpinned by an assumption that the parties enter into the relationship of their own