What all are needed for a trade union to be successful?

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What are the essentials of a successful trade union?

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(1) Trade union should be an enlightened one, so that it may be able to guide and direct the trade union movement properly. There should be a correct leadership which is not prepared to sacrifice the interests of the workers to outside interest.
(2) Trade union should have a solid foundation. So that it may be strong enough to achieve success in the realisation of its objectives.
(3) Trade union should have clearly enunciated objectives and a well-conceived policy, and it should consider itself as a business organisation which requires careful planning and sound organisational methods for its success.
(4) Trade union should be run by the members for the members i.e., its leadership should come from the rink and file of its members and it should be subject to their support or rejection.
(5) Trade union should have honesty and integrity of the purpose i.e., it should be honest not only in financial matters, its integrity should be all-inclusive, and should extend to its relationship with employers, to the formulation of its policies and the evaluation of its performance and to what it says to its own members.
(6) Trade union should look beyond its own horizon and recognise and fulfill its proper role in the life of the nation and of the community in the midst of which it lives and functions.
(7) Trade union should have a sense of responsibility i.e., (a) it should be internally strong so that it may be effective in protecting the interests of the workers (b) it should use its economic power in a careful and responsible way © it should be aware of the existing realities in terms of the opportunities it has to bring" about an improvement in the living conditions of the members and (d) it should be democratic so that the workers' right of self-government acquires a reality.