UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES

Industrial Disputes Act 1947 specifies the following as unfair labor practices

• To interfere, restrain, coerce workmen in the exercise of their right to organize, form, join or assist a trade union.
• Threatening workmen with discharge or dismissal
• Threatening of lockout or closure
• Granting wage increases to undermine trade union efforts
• To dominate, interfere with or support financially or socially by taking active interest in forming own trade union, and
• Showing partiality or granting favor to one of several trade unions to a non-recognized trade union
• To establish employer sponsored trade unions
• To encourage or discourage memberships in any trade union by discriminating workman by punishing or discharging, changing seniority ratings, refuse promotions, giving unmerited promotions, discharging union office bearers
• To discharge or dismiss workmen by victimizing, not in good faith, implicating in criminal case, for patently false reasons
• To abolish work of a regular nature
• To transfer workmen
• To show favoritism or partiality
• To replace workers
• To recruit workmen during legal strikes
• To indulge in acts of violence or force
• To refuse collective bargaining
• Proposing and continuing lockouts