Trade Unions

Trade Unions are always in the papers as headlines, work environments, broadcasted in the news on the radio-televised-online but do we really understand the term and it's function. Therefore here is were it all starts, "an organisation (whether temporary or permanent) which consists wholly or mainly of workers of one or more descriptions and whose principle purposes includes the regulations of relations between workers of that description or those descriptions and employers or employees associations."

To define the term in brief, 'it's subsidiary purpose is of regulating relations between workers and employers'. The statutory definition of trade union can be found in s1 (a) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 that provides that a trade union concentrates widely on whether or not the trade union is active in the work-place or whether the individual is a member of the relevant trade union is another matter.