LABOUR UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN SELECTED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WORK ORGANISATIONS IN LAGOS STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Industrial conflict is a term that denotes the clash of interests, and resultant disputes of varying intensity, between different individuals, groups and organizations in the industrial relations system. Industrial conflict may centre on differences in values and objectives, and relationships in terms of status, power and distribution between the parties involved in such conflict. As it were, some experts have perceived industrial conflicts as either disruptive to the proper functioning of society or providing impetus for social change and progress. This pre-supposes that opinions on industrial conflict are divergent and multi-dimensional. Thus, conflict arisesowing to disharmony of interest between two parties (labour and management) having disagreements on the distribution of resources or amenities. At the level of industrial relations, labour and management always involve in conflict owing to many reasons. The extent of such conflict depends on how it is effectively managed by both ...