A Trial Discussion of a Functional Adjustment that Trade Unions Safeguard Society

The trade unions are the results of social and economic contradictions and labor relations especially. The protective function of trade unions in China was clear in the stage of the new democratic revolution from 1949 to 1956; China carried forward a planned economy from 1957 to 1976. In this period, China denied the diversity and contradiction of interests and strengthened unanimous and public interests. The protective function of trade unions was distorted; In the process of establishing a socialist market e-conomy from 1978 to 2001, the four functions of protection, construction, participation and education of trade unions were continuously adjusted. The framework of a socialist market economy was basically set up in 2000 with the establishing of basic function of trade unions ' protection of workers ' legitimate rights and interests.