UNITY BUILDING EFFORTS BY PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS AND MANAGEMENTS IN BANGALORE, 1960S TO 1970S

The history of the Bangalore public sector unions' endeavours to achie ve unity in the 1960s and 1970s is also a history of disunity, trade u nion politicking and petty personal rivalries. For the leadership of t he different workers organisations there was nothing 'historically ine vitable' about combining their resources and numerical strengths in th e interests of their members. This paper traces the different collecti ve bodies thrown up by the unions, and examines their structural featu res and internal dynamism.