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Strategies and Tactics for Remaining Union-Free
 
Managers develop long-term strategies and effective tactics to 
prevent unionization of their organizations. The more important of them 
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ӹ Effective supervision
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ӹ Open communication

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ӹ Effective personnel research
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ӹ Healthy and safe working environment
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ӹ Effective employer-employee relations
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ӹ Effective remuneration
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ӹ Effective training and development programmes
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ӹ Effective personnel planning, recruitment and selection
Trade Union Act, 1926
 
Trade unions in our country are governed by the Trade unions 
Act, 1926. The main objective of the Act is to provide for the registration 
of trade unions and to give registered trade unions a legal status, and 
immunity to their office-bearers and members from civil and criminal 
liability in respect of the legitimate trade union activities.
Provision of the Act
 
In pursuit of the primary objective, the act contains 33 sections. 
The provisions can be broadly divided into 8 sections, namely 
1.  Definition (s.2)
2.  Registration of unions (s.3 to 12)
3.  Duties and liabilities of registered unions (s.13 to s. 16)
4.  Rights and liabilities of registered unions (s.17 to 21)
5.  Amalgamation and dissolution of unions (s.24 to 27)
6.  Submission of returns (s.28)
7.  Penalties and fines (s.31 to 33)
8.  Power to make regulations (s.29 to 30)
 
The act is a central legislation, but is administered by the state 
governments. Not that the central government has no role to play. It 
handles all unions, which are not confined to one state. It also has the 
power to amend the act.

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Employers Organisations
 
In India the term “trade union”, according to the Trade unions 
Act, refers to the employers organizations also. The need for these 
organizations is for 
1.  The development of healthy and stable industrial relations
2.  To promote collective bargaining at different levels
3.  To bring a unified employers’ viewpoint on the issues of industrial 
relations to the government in a concerted manner
4.  To represent in the meetings of Indian Labour Conference and 
Standing Labour Committee, the employers approach to labour 
matters.
Like trade unions, employer’s organizations too are organized at 
three levels in our country. There are local organizations, such as Bombay 
Mill Owners Association, which serve the needs of local employers only. 
Then there are regional organizations, such as the Southern India Mill 
Owners Association, which serves the interests of their members in a