The Trades Disputes Act in Nigeria does not contemplate the giving of an ultimatum to go on strike or Court injunctions to stop strike actions.
It is also correct to say that Nigeria is a signatory to the ILO Convention on COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, but curiously, Nigeria's public sector managers do not respect the outcome of Collective Bargaining - "Collective Agreements".
The following are some of the factors fueling incessant strikes by the public sector trade unions. They are:
- Disregard for the sanctity of Collective Agreements.
- Bogus demands.
- Impunity.
- Attitudinal restructuring.
- Injunctions from compromised courts.
- Personal interests.
- Personal Ego.
- Outright selfishness by parties.
- Refusal to follow laid down procedures.
- Compromise of officials of Trade Unions.
- Disobedience of court rulings.
Could all of the above factors fueling incessant public sector unions strikes be eliminated?
Finally, we make bold to say that public sector unions strikes are NOT AVOIDABLE as long as the conditions fueling them subsist.
Next week, we shall start another series of Content addressing the role played by inefficient and ineffective performance management systems in Job Hoping by Employees.
Great piece, educative.keep it up.
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