Abstract
This
study focused on critical evaluation of collective bargaining policy in Nigeria
from historical perspective. The main objective of this study was to evaluate
the structure and system of collective bargaining in Nigeria since the colonial
period. The study adopted a conceptual analysis and theoretical explanation of
the origin, development, weakness and state involvement in collective
bargaining policy in Nigeria through a critical review of extant literatures.
The study revealed that collective bargaining as machinery for wage
determination in public sector supposed to prevent the unilateral imposition of
wages on the union by government and vice versa as the case may be. However, it
is not often used by the Nigerian government to determine wages rather
government relied more on wage commissions, wage tribunals, and civil services
administrative rules to determine wages in the public sector. Therefore,
collective bargaining appears to be ineffective as a potent tool for wage determination
in Nigeria’s public sector. The study also discovered that collective
bargaining machinery in Nigeria is weak because of government direct
involvement in collective bargaining process to review, amend , even absolutely
reject collective agreement reached between unions and government
representative at the bargaining table. The study, therefore, concluded that
collective bargaining is not an effective institution within the context of
employment relations in Nigeria.
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