Can an outsider (non-employee) be present in a Employee’s Trade Union! Justice Chandru’s lighthouse with focus!
Can an outsider (non-employee) be present in a Employee’s Trade Union! Justice Chandru’s lighthouse with focus! Source: Lawyers Collective 10 Dec 2013 Moth-Eaten Debate On Outsider Presence December 9, 2013 Amicus Curiae No comments A+ | a- A High Court judge has chosen to tender a suggestion to the government to amend the Trade Union law to prohibit outsiders from assuming leadership in Trade Unions. It is indeed surprising that the judge has volunteered this opinion even though the central and State governments were not parties to the case. Such expressions of personal opinion with no legal value is called ‘obiter dicta’. Even so, as this is the opinion of a High Court judge, we may examine its merits. “Madras Labour Union” was established as the first labour union inIndia. Interesting history. The administration of the Buckingham Carnatic Mill [Binny Mill, Perambur] was ruthlessly exploiting its workers. A worker had recorded a memory clip in the Union’s Souvenir, that