Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Types of Trade Union
Trade unions may be classified in various ways
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ӹ Business unions
It is that emphasis upon the economic advantages to be bargained 
through collective action and thus aim at improving the wages, 
working hours and conditions of workers and similar other 
objectives largely through the process of collective bargaining.
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ӹ Predatory unions
It is that serve as a means for the enrichment of its leaders who 
pay only secondary attention to the advancement of interests of 
members. Its distinctive characteristic is the ruthless pursuit of 
the target by whatever means deemed appropriate at the time 
regardless of ethical or legal codes or effect upon those outside its 
own membership. Such a union may employ any of the business, 
friendly, revolutionary or violent methods for the achievement of 
its objectives.
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ӹ Dependant or company unions
These are unions that rely upon the support of the employer or 
company management or the other large groups and hence they 
are likely to pay secondary importance to the interests of members
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ӹ Friendly unions
These are unions which are idealistic, conservative and law 
abiding and they mainly aspire to elevate the moral, intellectual 
and social life of workers to improve the conditions under which 
they work, to raise their material standard of living and provide 
them security against unemployment, accident, disease or old 
age. They depend upon the process of collective bargaining for 
the attainment of their objectives.

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ӹ Revolutionary unions
These are unions that are extremely radical both in view- point 
and action. They are class conscious and tend to repudiate the 
existing institutional order, especially individual ownership 
of productive means and the wage systems. They are strongly 
inclined towards strike and violence and look upon unionism and 
socialism as the two wings of the labour movement.
Another viewpoint classifies trade unions into following categories