As regards the industrial development, the district is one of the advanced districts in the State of Maharashtra. The larger the industrial growth, the greater the scope will be for employment of industrial labour. The employer-employee relations are not always cordial and may occasion disputes. The industrial bargaining power of labour is weak and hence they substitute collective bargaining for individual bargaining. This gives rise to labour organisations.

As on March 31, 1964, there were 64 trade unions in the district registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1964. Correct statistic as regards 57 of them were available. These unions were classified as under: ­

Transport and communications	2
Vehicles	2
Wholesale and retail trade shops employees	2
Printing, publishing and allied industries	6
Electricity	1
Local Bodies	12
Agriculture	4
Sugar factories and refineries	2
Miscellaneous food production, edible oils	2
Bidi industry	6
Textiles	2
Metal conversion, metal rolling	1
Other products	1
Distilleries	1
Insurance	1
Activities not adequately described	12
Total	57

The highest number of industrial disputes recorded in the district was 12 in 1958 while the lowest number was one in 1957. Three disputes were recorded in 1954 and 1963, four in 1955, 1956, 1960 and 1961, five in 1962 and eight in 1959. Of these two in 1954 and one each in 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 concerned textile workers; one each in 1957, 1959, 1962 and 1963 concerned engineering workers and one in 1954, two in 1963, three each in 1954, 1960 and 1961, four each in 1955. 1956 and 1962; and 11 in 1958 involved workers in miscellaneous industries. The total number of workers involved in the dispute was 70 in 1954, 441 in 1955, 986 in 1956, 38 in 1957, 4.306 in 1958, 1.599 in 1959, 195 in 1960, 248 in 1961, 304 in 1962 and 102 in 1963. During the same periods the number of man-days lost was 138; 1.350; 10,279; 38; 390; 75; 16; 617; 987; 748; 1; 381 and 236 respectively. Of these many were successful and many were settled by compromise while one each in 1956 and 1957 and two each in 1958 and 1960 continued indefinitely. One each in 1954, 1959 and 1960 two in 1962 and three each in 1958 and 1961 were successful.