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This study focuses on the influence of trade unionism and the enhancement of workers' welfare in Nigeria, using maritime workers' union of Nigeria as a case study. This relationship is analysed empirically, using the one-way analysis of variance and Pearson product moment correlation statistics were used to analyse the data. The findings showed that the level of negotiation adopted by union members exerts significant influence on workers' welfare. The study observed that the deprivation of workers from benefiting from their welfare package either by management or sometimes by ill-mannered union leaders was responsible for majority of the conflicts and strikes in work settings in our contemporary economy. Accordingly, trade unionism should be encouraged in all work settings and its leader vested with knowledge of industrial relations, union leaders should be individuals who seek after the welfare of its members and not their personal benefits.
Stephen Adi Odey (Tue,) studied this question.