CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND ITS ROLE IN LABOUR RELATIONS IN NIGERIA

CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND ITS ROLE IN LABOUR RELATIONS IN NIGERIA

Introduction

Collective bargaining is an industrial practice made to enhance harmony by mutual settlement of trade disputes between an employer and workers or their respective unions. The term collective bargaining is applied to the arrangement under which wages and conditions of employment are settled by a bargain inform of an agreement made between employers or associations of employers and workers organizations. The International Labour Organization Convention1 enjoins members of the organization to take measures appropriate to national conditions however necessary to encourage and promote the full development and utilization of machinery for voluntary negotiation between employers and workers with a view to regulate the terms and condition of employment by means of collective agreements. The practice of collective bargaining has long been accepted by all side to the employment relationship. This is mainly because the interest of government employees and trade unions rest on the process of consultation and discussion which is the foundation of democracy in industry. Collective bargaining includes all methods by which groups of workers and relevant employees come together to attempt to reach an agreement in matters under discussion by a process of negotiation, such matters are often regarded as constituting a challenge which generates into a competitive rivalry and usually the method of reaching a decision is compromise.

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These methods or process are considered collective because it replaces the individual workers feeble attempts to gain improvement for himself and is instead based upon a joint or collective effort and experience many workers channeled through their union and enhance by their collective strength and it is bargaining because in most times the process fit into the practical solutions.

TOPIC: CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND ITS ROLE IN LABOUR RELATIONS IN NIGERIA

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