Vol. 2 No. Issue: 7, September, 1614-1629 (2025) (2025): Assessing the Role of Trade Union Rights in Shaping Collective Bargaining Practices in Contemporary Workplaces

Abstract

The trade union rights from an Indian perspective provide a legal framework of the Trade Union Act, 1926, to permit the unions to function, negotiate, and interpret the collective demands of the labour into a binding agreement. The rights authorise the workers of contemporary Indian workplaces to develop unions and make a transition between the collective actions and individual grievances. The unions utilise these legal rights to establish bargaining agendas through the negotiations of the wage distribution structure, job security, and workplace safety. The study highlighted the unpredictable outcomes of the theoretical interpretations of the “Web of Rules" under Dunlop's Industrial Relations Systems Theory to govern the employment rights in the contemporary workspace in India. The key recommendation of the research study is to consider either the mixed data collection method or the primary quantitative survey method with statistical analysis to make a valid and credible solution to the identified research problem.

Keywords: Trade Union Rights, Dunlop’s Industrial Relations Systems Theory, Gig Employees, Contemporary Workplaces, Technological Transitions, Workplace Democracy