Femi Aborisade's Blog

Femi Aborisade Centre for Labour and Development Studies & The Polytechnic, Ibadan aborisadefemi@gmail.com   Appreciation and Introduction I wish to express profound gratitude to my Union, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) for inviting me to deliver a paper on ‘ Trade Unionism in the 21 st Century: Issues, Challenges and Solutions ’. I derive personal satisfaction, fulfilment and meaning from life only when I engage in reflections on the emancipatory struggles of the working class, not only within the national frontier but also on a world’s scale, without borders.

The Right to Strike in Nigeria and ILO Principles on the Right to Strike By Femi Aborisade Department of Business Administration & Management Studies The Polytechnic, Ibadan & Centre for Labour Studies (CLS) Email: aborisadefemi@yahoo.com and centreforlabourstudies1@yahoo.co.uk   Introduction The right to strike is perhaps next in importance to the right to life. The right to strike influences the balance of relations, not only between employers and employees and their organizations in the various sectors of the economy but also the capacity of the civil society, which includes trade unions, in acting as a counter power to likely excesses that the state may display in the governance process. Thus, the right to strike determines not just the prospects for enjoying improvements in working and living conditions of employees but it is also a precondition for the sustenance of society on a just and democratic basis and enjoyment of other funda...

LABOUR AND THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL SPACE: PROPOSALS ON A CHARTER FOR DEVELOPMENT By Femi Aborisade Labour Consultant, Barrister and Solicitor [1] Introduction Distinguished delegates! Permit me to express profound gratitude for the rare opportunity you have given me to address the 12 th National Delegates Conference of your Association. With all sense of proportion and modesty, my continued relationship with your Association and the fact of your invitation to me reflect the continued progressive character of the leadership of FOBTOB. I hope your Association will go down in history as laying down a striking example for the rest of the Nigerian labour movement by initiating the implementation of some of the compelling lines of action, which my paper/presentation recommends. My interpretation of the topic that was originally communicated to me [‘Creating an Agenda for Political Governance: Labour and the Nigerian Political Space’] within the context...