Why trade unions have come up.
i do not intend going into depth and history.
Exploitative practises of employers lead to formation of trade unions.
Once employee gets organised his attitude changes and becomes rather aggressive.
Look at many PSUs,TU are so powerful that management buys peace by keeping silent to poor work output,recruitment of people under TU pressure,merit being casualty etc
Few months ago i read of loaders earning Rs4L per month in FCI. This is an example of TU becoming dominant.
Off course management is hardly bothered as it is tax payer money anyway.
Look at Air India.It runs on loss,but employee privilege of free tickets,allowances are untrammelled.
Loss or no loss tax payer has to bear the expenses.
If one goes by news articles it is shocking as to how AI is run.
Some links to news items:
Air India doles out free air tickets to its employees despite impending loss - The Times of India
Perks of PSU jobs: Generous allowances, soft loans, job security and more - timesofindia-economictimes
On one side in some private sector companies,employees are treated poorly and on other side,employees are king and management can do nothing to make them work.
Many Union members do no work in the office other than loitering in corridors and finding out issues.
This is the inequity which is clearly visible in our corporate environment.
Changing all this only can make India go to greater heights.
So payment of retention bonus-refusal, is a symptom of the environment.