Introduction:

Trade Union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.

-An organized association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

-A group of employees in a particular sector, whose aim is to negotiate with employees over pay, job security, working hours, etc. using the collective power of the members.

-The most common purpose of these associations or unions is "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment".

Objectives:

Trade unions are the only way to manage, compliant, and control the labor force. Lots of objectives are there to organize trade unions.

1. To defend or improve the wages and working conditions of workers and to bring about a change in the economic order.

2. To strengthen their (labor) bargaining power collectively to establish and achieve all their rights.

3. To dully protect all other interest of the workers .And from the management’s point of view the objectives as written:

a. To reduce the number of negotiation.

b. To specify work rules, disagreements and grievances to give the better solution to workers claim.

c. To establish the efficient communication between the employers and management to enforce the predictable standards.

d. To enhance the overall organizational effectiveness workers can also be sometimes inspired to form and organize trade union. In fact, objectives of a trade union are not defined; rather these are changing according to the need of the economy and overall industry. When these objectives are not settled then the rivals are started.

History of Trade Unions:

The Pakistan Period (1947-71)

-The East Pakistan Trade