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PRINCIPLE OF INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS
TRADE
UNION
NAME : NUR ADIBAH DIYANA BINTI HASSAN
MATRIX NO: 2017711065
GROUP : NAMA5A
industrial relations acknowledge that
industrial relations consider the complex
interaction among three major elements of
work, employer, workers and their
representatives (Unions), and the
government
A trade union is an organisation made up of
members (a membership-based
organisation) and its membership must be
made up mainly of workers. One of a trade
union's main aims is to protect and advance
the interests of its members in the
workplace. Most trade unions are
independent of any employer.
The general objectives of a trade union are as
following (e.g. Rules and Constitution of the
Electrical Industry Workers Union) .First is To
promote the industrial, social and intellectual
interests of their members. Second is ‬T o ‭ ‬o btain ‭
‬a nd ‭ ‬m aintain ‭ ‬f or ‭ ‬i ts ‭ ‬m embers ‭ ‬j ust ‭ ‬a nd ‭ proper ‭
‬r ates ‭ ‬o f ‭ ‬r emuneration, security of employment
and reasonable hours and conditions or work.
ThenTo promote the material, social and
educational welfare of the members and to promote
legislation affecting the interests of the members
in particular of trade unionist in general.‬‬
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PROCEDURES
REGISTRATION
OF TRADE
UNION
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APPOINTMENT
OF
REGISTRATION
Section 3 of the Trade Union Act, 1926
empowers the appropriate Government
to appoint a person to be registrar of
Trade Unions. The appropriate
Government be it State or Central, as
the case may be is also empowered to
appoint
additional
and
Deputy
Registrars as it thinks fit for the
purpose of exercising and discharging
the powers and duties of the Registrar.
However, such person will work under
the superintendence and direction of
the Registrar. He may exercise such
powers and functions of Registrar with
local limit as may be specified for this
purpose.
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MODE OF
REGISTRATION
Any seven or more persons who want to form trade
union, can apply for its registration to the
Registration of Trade Unions under Section 4 (1) of
the Trade Unions Act, 1926. These applicants must be
members of a trade union.
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APPLICATION OF
REGISTRATION
The application for registration must be sent to the Registrar
of Trade Unions in Form “A” as required by the Trade Union
Act, 1926 under Section 5.
The names, occupations and addresses of the members
making application.
The name of the trade union and the address of its head
office.
The titles, names, ages, addresses and occupations of the
office bearers of the trade union.
If a trade union has been in existence for more than one
year prior to application of its registration, a financial
statement showing its assets and liabilities.
application must be accompanied with a copy of Rules of
Trade union complying with the items as specified under
Section 6 of the Trade Unions Act, 1926.
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RULES OF A
TRADE UNION
A trade union can be registered only when its
constitution fulfils the following rules.
Name of the trade union
The whole of the objects for which the trade
union has been established
Purposes for which the general funds of a
trade union shall be applicable
maintenance of a list of the members of the
trade union and adequate facilities for the
inspection thereof by the office-bearers and
members of trade union
The payment of a subscription by members of
the trade union which shall be not less than
RM30 month per member
The manner in which rules will be amended
varied and/or rescinded
The manner in which the members of the
executive and the other office-bearers of the
trade union shall be appointed and removed
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RIGHT AND DUTY OF
REGISTRATION
Register on satisfield that Trade Union has complied with
all the requirement of this Act in regard to registration,
shall register the Trade Union within a period of 60 Days
from the date of such compliance.
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LEGAL STATUS OF
REGISTERED TRADE UNION
Upon the registration, a trade union assumes to a corporate
body by the name under which it is registered. A registered
trade union shall have perpetual succession and its common
seal. A regis­tered trade union is an entity distinct from the
members of which, the trade union is composed of It enjoys
power to contract and to hold property both moveable and
immoveable and to sue and be sued by the name in which it is
registered.
n conclusion, trade unions still tend to play an
important role in protecting workers and helping them
enforce their legal rights, particularly in cases when
these rights may be uncertain or under debate. Unions
will also be able to support employees when they feel
that the psychological contract between workers and
managers is being breached, and can help workers to
renegotiate this contract if necessary. Unfortunately, a
post structuralist view of the trade unions indicates
that the unions tend to be more responsive to their
own social contract with the workers, than to the
actual needs and demands of the workplace itself. This
can lead to unions behaving in overly militant ways,
particularly when they feel their own power and
relevance is being threatened.