A Study On Trade Union Democracy

In response to the growing need for a better and strong democracy of trade unions, the research has progressed at a tremendous pace during these decades. This has initiated the need to integrate the global trade union movement into practices. A union's ability to represent workers' interests is a fundamental democratic right.The present study is concerned with union democracy. It is a belief that political democracy should be extended to all walks of life of the workers. In industries, the workers step into the shoes of democracy through various participative management systems. Now-a-days most of the workers are members of the unions. The union in turn works for betterment of its members. Trade union is an organization which is also expected to follow the democratic principles in its working. The study pertains to the trade unions in the RTPP. The trade unions should voluntary societies for the sake of their own freedom of actions and in the interest of democracy. The present study is an attempt to find out the democracy existing in the functioning of trade unions. The study was carried out among the eleven trade unions existing in RTPP, Kalamala Kadapa District of A.P.