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TRADE UNIONS AND WORKSHOP MENTALITY 1

 Trade Unions are meant to protect the interests of her members but with the economic meltdown, they have taken upon themselves the role of workshop managers. You may not know why it is called workshop, funny as it may sound, but it so called because those work there eat out of there.

Until Comrade Adams Oshiomole committed class suicide to become the governor of Edo State, the NLC was the only organised opposition to the PDP government of Gen. Matthew Okikiola Arẹmu Olusegun Obasanjo, after that, the organised labour movement was captioned.

What do you hear from TUs today is one ultimatum or the other to go on strike if one bogus demand or the other is not met. Here, I need some education as to the section of our Trade Dispute Act is ultimatum? All ultimatums are a way of telling the employer, especially in the public sector to call us for settlement.

It goes without saying that everybody have a price and empty fingers are not sweet in the mouth.

The Disputes settlement procedure provided for by  TDA which is adopted by all Procedural Agreements by TUs is as follows:

When a dispute arises, the TU and Management are to use their internal mechanism to settle it. When this fails;

3rd Party Voluntary Interaction - Mediation. When this fails:

3rd Party Compulsory Intervention - Conciliation. When this fails:

3rd Party Intervention Continues:

Arbitration: When this fails:

3rd Party Intervention Continues

National Industrial Court. The decision of NIC is fanal, unless a matter of fundamental human rights is raised.

All the above was jettison when a medical doctor (from Ijinna Shrine) was appointed minister of Labour. This marks the beginning of TUs becoming ultimatum givers, hence Workshops.

I wish to ask for education as I end today as regards the abolishion of ILO Conversation on Collective Bargaining.

Next we shall try to trace the conversation of TUs to Workshops from the 2009 ASUU/ FGN Agreement till the present.

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