Worker's Perception of Strike Action in Tertiary Institutions

Overtime, the issue of strike has generated a lot of controversies and setbacks in the development of the education sector and up till now, the solution seems not to be in sight as strike actions continue in tertiary institutions across the nation unfortunately, strike actions always fall on innocent students as there would be no lectures and idleness, layoff, job loss as the impact of the strike actions on workers. The study will examine perceptions of strike action in Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo. The study will synthesized the unitarist and pluralist theories to explain perception of workplace relations and will therefore interpret such events as workplace conflict, the role of unions, industrial action and job regulation differently. Also, the concept of strike action and perception will use to buttress the literature review. The study will employed a descriptive sectional design with a self-administered questionnaire survey method to collect data from respondents which were randomly selected from the study population and in depth interviews will be conducted among top officers in FCE (Special), Oyo. The quantitative data will be analysed with statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).

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Oyeyinka Abraham Jide es de Ogbomoso, Estado de Oyo, Nigeria. Obtuvo su primera licenciatura en Fisiología Humana en la Universidad Tecnológica Ladoke Akintola, en el Estado de Oyo, Nigeria, en 2010, y también un máster en Fisiología Humana en la Universidad de Ibadán, en Ibadán, Nigeria, en el año 2014. Tiene una esposa (Alaba) y dos hijos (Raymond y Henry).