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industrial union

industrial union : a labor union that admits to membership workers in an industry regardless of their occupation or craft compare craft union ...


craft union

craft union : a labor union with membership limited to workers in the same craft (as carpentry or plumbing) compare industrial union ...


Industry

Industry, 'Industrial dispute' and 'workman' taken in the extended significance, or exclude it. Though the word 'undertaking' in definition of industry is wedged in between business and trade on the one hand and manufacture on the other, and though therefore it might mean only a business or trade undertaking, still it must be remembered that if that were so, there was no need to use the word separately from business or trade. The wider import is attracted even more clearly when we look at the latter part of the definition which refers to 'calling, service, employment, or industrial occupation of, avocation of workman. 'Undertak-ing' in the first part of the definition and 'industrial occupation or avocation in the second part obviously mean much more than what is ordinarily understood by trade or business. The definition was apparently intended to include within scope what might not strictly be called a trade or business venture, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa,...


Trade Union

Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions, and other associations of employers and workmen. The (English) Trade Union Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), provides:-S. 2. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.'S. 3. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust.'S. 4. 'Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for breach of any of the following agreements, namely,(1) Any agreement between members of a trade union as su...


Scheduled industry

Scheduled industry, the expression 'scheduled industry' is not synonymous with the expression 'industrial undertaking'; as the Industrial (Development and Regulations) Act, 1951, has made a distinction between these two and the declaration under s. 2 of the Act applies not only to industrial undertakings but also to other industries. Therefore Parliament was competent to legislate in regard to the subject-matter of the impugned Act, Harakchand Ratanchand Banthia v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 1453 (1462): (1969) 2 SCC 166: (1970) 1 SCR 479....


Controlled industry

Controlled industry, means any industry the control of which by the Union has been declared by any Central Act to be expedient in the public interest. [Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (d); Also see Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952), s. 2 (d); Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 (30 of 1979), s. 2 (1) (c); The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1979), s. 2 (ee)]...


Industrial or other establishment

Industrial or other establishment, means any--(a) tramway service, or motor transport service eng-aged in carrying passenger or goods or both by road for hire or reward;(aa) air transport service other than such service belonging to, or exclusively employed in the military, naval or air forces on the Union or the Civil Aviation Department of the Government of India;(b) dock, wharf or jetty;(c) inland vessel, mechanically propelled;(d) mine, quarry or oil-field;(e) plantation;(f) workshop or other establishment in which articles are produced, adapted or manufactured, with a view to their use, transport or sale;(g) establishment in which any work relating to the construction, development or maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges or canals, or relating to operations connected with navigation, irrigation or the supply of water or relating to the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity or any other form of power is being carried one;(h) any other establishment or class of...


Industrial dispute

Industrial dispute, means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour, of any persons. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, s. 2 (k)]The words 'Industrial disputes' in the Industrial Disputes Act include also disputes that might arise between municipalities and their employees in branches of work that can be said to be analogous to the carrying out of a trade or business, D.N. Banerjee v. P.R. Mukherjee, AIR 1953 SC 59: (1953) SCR 302. [Constitution of India Sch VII, List III, Entry 22]A dispute between an employer and single workman does not fall within the definition of Industrial dispute' under the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. But though the applicability of the Act to an individual dispute as opposed to dispute involving a group of workmen is excluded, if the workmen as a body or a con...


Industrial undertaking

Industrial undertaking, means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry carried on in one or more factories by any company but does not include--(i) an ancillary industrial undertaking as defined in clause (aa) of s. 3 of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951; and(ii) a small scale industrial undertaking as defined in clause (j) of the aforesaid s. 3. [Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (1 of 1986), s. 3 (1) (f)]Means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry and includes an undertaking engaged in any other industry, or in any trade, business or service which may be regulated by Parliament by law. [Central Industrial Security Force Act, 1968 (50 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry carried on in one or more factories by any person or authority including Government. [Indus-tries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (d)]...


Industry and Industrial dispute

Industry and Industrial dispute, 'industry' and 'industrial dispute' are defined in the Act in s. 2, clauses (j) and (k) of the Industrial Dispute Act, 1947 as follows: '(j) 'industry' means any business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling of employers and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen; (k) 'industrial dispute' means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour, of any person', D.N. Banerji v. P.R. Mukherjee, AIR 1953 SC 58 (59): (1953) SCR 302....


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