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Workers Education-Concept, Objectives and Schemes: by Umar Kanth, 28 8th Semester IMBA

Workers' education aims to educate and train workers to understand their rights and responsibilities as employees, union members, and citizens. It seeks to [1] increase workers' bargaining power with employers and make them more cooperative, [2] develop loyalty to trade unions and impart skills for participation in union activities, and [3] enable workers to play a role in socio-economic development. Schemes for workers' education include organizing training camps, launching new programs on quality of life, and apprenticeship programs to supply trained workers to industries.

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Workers Education-Concept, Objectives and Schemes: by Umar Kanth, 28 8th Semester IMBA

Workers' education aims to educate and train workers to understand their rights and responsibilities as employees, union members, and citizens. It seeks to [1] increase workers' bargaining power with employers and make them more cooperative, [2] develop loyalty to trade unions and impart skills for participation in union activities, and [3] enable workers to play a role in socio-economic development. Schemes for workers' education include organizing training camps, launching new programs on quality of life, and apprenticeship programs to supply trained workers to industries.

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Workers Education- Concept,

Objectives and Schemes

By Umar Kanth, 28
8th Semester IMBA
Concept

“Theterm worker’s education, as commonly used, is not a genetic term but has a specific
connotation. It is a special kind of adult education designed to give workers a better
understanding of their status problems, rights and responsibilities as workers, as union
members, as consumers and as citizens”.
Scope/Features of workers Education

● To create trade union consciousness among workers.


● To make employees good citizens.
● Train employees to understand their status, rights and responsibilities.
Scope/Features of Workers Education

● To increase the bargaining power of the trade unions.


● To make the working class more sensible and cooperative.
● It includes GENERAL EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, TECHNICAL
EDUCATION, SOCIAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TRADE UNIONISM.
Objectives of Workers Education

● The basic objective of workers’ education is to make the worker an efficient


individual, disciplined trade union member and an intelligent corporate citizen, so
that he plays a vital role in the socio – economic development of the country.
● To foster workers’ loyalty towards the union and imparting the necessary training to
them for intelligent and efficient participation in union activities.
● To develop the worker for good and respectable civic life.
● To promote among workers a greater understanding of the country’s economic
environment and their privileges, rights and obligations as union members and
citizens.
Objectives of Workers Education

● To promote trade union leadership.


● To familiarize the workers with the capitalist culture and philosophy.
● To inculcate among workers a better understanding of their duties
responsibilities and intricacies of work.
● To enable the worker to realise the purpose of human life.
● To equip organized labour to take its place in a democratic society.
Workers Education Schemes
● Organisation of periodic camps for the workers in the stone querries and
stone crushers.

● A new programme "Quality of Life for Workers and their Spouses" with a view
to mould their attitudes, develop motivation, build up personality, raise family
status, maintain good neighbourhood relations, develop awareness about
environmental cleanliness, develop a spirit of team work, human relations,
productivity consciousness, commitment to discipline, mutual trust and
hygiene etc has been recently launched by the Board.
Workers Education Schemes
To build up the cover of young persons and to supply a constant stream of trained personnel to
industries, the director- general of employment and training (DGET) has designed a number of
training programmes

1) Craftsmen’s training programme

2) Craft instructors training

3) Advanced vocational training

4) Foreman’s training

5) Apprenticeship training scheme

6) Part time training for industrial workers and


7) Vocational training programme for women

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