Collective bargaining has been defined by different experts in different ways. Nevertheless, it is treated as a method by which problem of wages and conditions of employment are resolved peacefully and voluntarily between labor and management. However, the term collective bargaining is opposed to individual bargaining. Sometimes, it is described as a process of accommodation between two conflicting interests .
The I.L.O. defines collective bargaining:
"As negotiations about working conditions and terms of employment between an employer, or a group of employers, or one or more employers ' organisations, on the one hand, and one or more representative workers ' organisation on the other with a view to reaching agreement."
This definition confines the term collective bargaining as a means of improving conditions of employment. But in fact, collective bargaining serves something more.
Perlman aptly stated, "Collective bargaining is not just a means of raising wages and improving conditions of employment. Nor is it merely democratic government in industry. It is above all technique, collective bargaining as a technique of the rise of a new class which is quite different from the desire to displace or abolish" the "old ruling class" to gain equal rights as a class to acquire an excessive jurisdiction in that sphere where the most immediate interests, both material and spiritual, are determined, and a shared jurisdiction with the older class or classes in all other spheres.
The extent of success of collective bargaining in India is discussed in detail in this project report. 1.1 HYPOTHESIS
Collective bargaining is a method by which problem of wages and conditions of employment are resolved peacefully and voluntarily between labor and management. Its success in India is being affected by various causes like problems with the union , problems with the government ,political interference and many more reasons which are discussed in detail.
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