Industrial dispute can take place in any of the following forms:

1) Strikes: A strike means a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in combination or a concerted refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue work or to accept employment.

Strikes are of several types:

• Economic Strike 
• Sympathetic Strike 
• General Strike 
• Set down Strike 
• Slow Down Strike 
• Lightening Strike 
• Hunger Strike

2) Lock Out: lock out is the counterpart of strike. Lock outs bring psychological pressure on the workers to agree to his conditions or face closure of the units. A lockout is decaled as a trial of strength between the management and its employees. Lockouts means the employer closes down his factory where his workers are employed because he wants to force them to agree to his terms and conditions of service during the pendency of a dispute.

3) Gherao: Its means “to surround”. According to National Commission on Labour “ Gherao tend to inflict physical duress on the persons affected and endanger not only industrial harmony but also create problems of law and order”.

4) Picketing: It is primarily a method of drawing public attention towards the disputes and it is legal so there is no violence is involved. In picketing, workers are dissuaded from reporting for work by certain persons stationed at the gate of the factory.

5) Boycott: Boycott aims at disrupting the normal functioning of an enterprise, through forceful appeals and negative behavioural acts