ABSTRACT
This project work deals with strike action and its effectiveness in achieving union aims (A case study of Nigerian Union of Teachers). The unsuited in an all times record of cost working hours, unprecedented spate of strike. The study is focused on the following issues;(i) to identify the causes of trade dispute (ii) to find out if strike is the major tools for achieving union aims and (iii) and the effectiveness of strike action in achieving unions aims. This project also discussed the early stages and development of trade unions, legal provisions on union versus employers and the evaluation of strike as one of the tools of trade union in achieving their aims from management. Furthermore, the political, social and economic implications of strike and the various strikes embarked upon by NUT were also discussed. The third chapter covers the design of the study, population selection and sample size determination. Also are the questionnaires design, research procedure and the method of treatment of data. The data collected were presented and analyzed in chapter four in analysis, the secondary data were analyzed first using the chi-square method. Finally, based on the finding, the following conclusions, and recommendations were made. The management should try to reduce the air of dispute arising in the form by trying to avert the caused of dispute which are likely to occur. More effort should be made to integrate the whole members of the plant into the union and make them recognize the need of collective bargaining. Joint consultation should be reasserted to when disputed arises and where a strike is inevitable, the necessary steps of resolving it must be met.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
Approval page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Table of content vii
Abstract viii
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background of the study 1
1.2 Statement of the problem 2
1.3 Objective of the study 3
1.4 Research questions 4
1.5 Research hypothesis 4
1.6 Significance of the study 5
1.7 Scope of the Study 6
1.8 Limitation of study 7
1.9 Definition of term 7
Chapter Two: Review of Related Literature
2.1 The history and development of trade unionism in Nigeria 9
2.2 Functions and objectives of trade union 12
2.3 Legal provisions of unions vs. employers 13
2.4 Evaluation of strike as one of the test of trade union 16
2.5 Settlement of strike and legal provisions 18
2.6 The political, social and economic implication of strike 19
2.7 Strikes embarked upon by Nigerian union of teachers 21
Chapter Three : Research Methodology
3.1 Design of the study 23
3.2 Area of the study 23
3.3 Population of the study 24
3.4 Sample and sampling technique 24
3.5 Instrument for data collection 25
3.6 Validation of the instrument 25
3.7 Method of Data Collection 25
3.8 Method of data analysis 26
Chapter Four: Presentation and Analysis of Data
4.1 Presentation and analysis of data 27
4.2 Testing of hypothesis 40
CHAPTER FIVE: Summary, conclusion and recommendations
5.1 Summary of findings 45
5.2 Implication of the research finding 46
5.3 Recommendations 47
References
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