law: Trade Union Act, 1926 
  22. Proportion of office-bearers to be connected with the
  
  industry 
  Not less than one-half of the total number of the 8[office-bearers]
  
  of every registered trade union shall be persons actually engaged or employed
  
  in an industry with which the trade union connected:
  PROVIDED  that the 24[appropriate
  
  government] may, by special or general order, declare that the provisions of
  
  this section shall not apply to any trade union or class of trade unions
  
  specified in the order.
  Comment: The provisions contained in Sections 6 and
  
  22 reproduced above relate to the registration of a Trade Union and constitution of the executive of the said Union. The provisions of Sections 6 and 22 indicate that an ordinary or a temporary member may be an office bearer but they nowhere provide that such a member shall also have a right to negotiate with the management or the management would be under an obligation to negotiate with an office bearer of the Union who is no longer in the employment of the Industry which the Trade Union is connected. State Bank of India Staff Association v. State Bank of India AIR 1996 SUPREME COURT 1685