SECTION - III - LABOUR ORGANISATION

As the district is is industrially backward, the growth of trade unionism is also very slow and of recent origin. The origin of the trade union movement in the district can be traced when the registration of the trade unions first started under the Indian Trade Union Act of 1926. The chief industries in the district are rice mills, bidi making, oil-mills, printing presses,  etc. Most of the unions in the district were organized by workers engaged in bidi making and the services of the State and Local bodies.

TABLE No. 1

NUMBER OF TRADE UNIONS 1967.

Name of Union

Membership 

Affiliation

Classification
Gondia Mazdoor Sangh Gondia

 N. A.

N. A.

22 Tobacco, 220 Tobacco manufactures (a) Bidi Industries.
 Bhandara Mazdoor Sangh Gondia 

N. A.

N. A.

Do.
Litho Press Kamgar Union, Gondia.

198

H. M. P.

  28 Printing, Publishing and Allied Industries.
 Bhandara Zilla Hospital Kamgar Union, Gondia

50

B. M. S.

  822, Medical and other public Health Services. (b) Hospital and Dispensaries.
Maharashtra Gramsevak Association, Gondia

993

INTUC

 (a) Services of Local Bodies
Municipal Employees Union, Gondia

 177

 Not Affiliated 

  822, Medical and other public Health Services. (a) Services of Local Bodies
 

Industrial Disputes

Information about industrial disputes in the district during the years from 1956 to 1968 and number of workers involved, mandays lost, etc., is given in table No.2.

TABLE No. 2

DETAILS OF NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES, WORKERS INVOLVED AND MANDAYS LOST 

DISTRICT DURING THE YEARS FROM 1956 TO 1968.

Year

Locality 

Number of industrial disputes

Workers involved

Mandays lost

Engineering industries

Miscellaneous industries

Total

 Engineering industries Miscellaneous industries Total Engineering industries Miscellaneous industries Total
1956 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 221 221 --- 221 221
1957 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 35 35 --- 105 105
1958 Gondia --- 2 2 --- 278 278 --- 556 556
Tirora --- 2 2 --- 33 33 --- 117 117
Dandegaon  --- 1 1 --- 180 180 --- 5,760 5,760
1959 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 172 172 --- 516 516
1962 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 344 344 --- 344 344
1963 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 52 52 --- 572 572
1965 Gondia --- 1 1 --- 130 130 --- 130 130
1966 Gondia --- 4 4 --- 382 382 --- 507 507
1967 Gondia --- 4 4 --- 961 961 --- 12,702 12,702
Tirora  --- 1 1 --- 17 17 --- 26 26
1968 Gondia --- 3 3 --- 412 412 --- 1,804 1,804
Tirora --- 1 1 --- 24 24 --- 144 144

 
Labour Welfare

Labour welfare is promoted through the Maharashtra Labour Welfare Board, constituted under the Labour Welfare Found Act, 1953. The Board took over the management of labour welfare centres in Bhandara district along with other centres in Vidarbha. There are four welfare centres conducted by the board in Bhandara district, two at Bhandara and one each at Tumsar and Gondia. The activities conducted by such centres are community and social education, games and sports, entertainment etc.

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