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Labour-management relations in the present industrial society constitute an important area responsible for collaboration and strife at workplace and it is a dynamic body subject to evolution. The interactions between employees and management have reached to a critical stage in this transforming age. Hierarchically and horizontally, at various levels starting from the instrumental role in protection of democracy at workplace, redefining the people management practices, to the political participation at national and international levels, trade unions are playing keen role in decision consensus in industrial relations. To mention a few, phenomenal changes have taken place in industrial relations via meta-morphosis in public industrial investment foray, the nature of industrial employment and work organization, negotiations, employee reward and welfare, flexible work systems, technology adaptation, increased employee responsibility, production/productivity agreements and in the industrial relations law and public policy. Besides the overt mainstream ideological or ideal based workplace relations, historically there is a conspicuous growing trend towards gender, caste, class, ethnicity, and context based versions of industrial relations with culture as the dominant undercurrent behind. This paper presents the fluidity in current industrial relations in Indian public sector enterprises.