Association of employees: A trade union is essentially an association of employees belonging to a particular class of employment, profession, trade or industry. For example, there are unions for teachers, doctors, film, artistes, weavers, mine workers and so on.
Voluntary Association: An employee joins the trade union out of his free will. A person cannot be compelled to join a union.
Permanent Body: A trade union is usually a permanent body. Members may come and go but the trade union remains.
Common Interest: The member of a trade union have certain matters of common interest-job security, better pay and working conditions and so on, which bring them together.
Collective Action: Even when an individual employee has any grievance over certain management decisions, the matter is sorted out by the intervention of the trade union Employees are able to initiate collective action to solve any problem concerning any particular employee or all the employees.
Rapport with the Management: The trade union seeks to improve relations between the employees and employers. The officials of the trade union hold talks with the members of the management concerning the problems of the employees in order to find an amicable solution. It is thus possible for the employees to have better rapport with the management.
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