工会是各高校的一个群团部门,在党委的领导下开展工作。在市场经济条件下,工会工作出现了两方面的偏向。一是一些高校更多的注意他的福利功能和娱乐功能,把他简单地当作福利部门;二是有的高校工会缺乏经常性。特别是忽视了他的思想政治功能。工会因为其特殊的功能在思想政治方面应发挥特殊的作用。而且其鲜明的特色,是其它部门所不能替代的。那么,工会通过哪些途径进行思想政治教育并发挥怎样的作用呢? 一、积极参与党委统一部署的思想政治工作 工会是在学校党委领导下的群团部门,他的主要职责是发挥党联系群众的纽带作用,开展对教职工的 Trade unions are a group of departments and colleges in colleges and universities that carry out their work under the leadership of party committees. Under the conditions of a market economy, there have been two biases in the work of trade unions. First, some colleges and universities pay more attention to his welfare and entertainment functions, leaving him simply as a welfare department. Second, some colleges and universities have a lack of regular trade unions. Especially ignoring his ideological and political functions. Trade unions should play a special role in ideological and political terms because of their special functions. And its distinctive features, can not be replaced by other departments. So, what ways can unions exercise ideological and political education and play their respective roles? I. Ideological and Political Work Actively Participating in the Unified Deployment of Party Committees Trade unions are under the leadership of school party committees. Their main duty is to give full play to the party’s ties with the masses Binding effect, carried out on the faculty