COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

This study delves into the prevalent issue of collective bargaining and its impact on industrial disputes using the University of Benin as the case study. The population of the study comprises the academic staff within the institution. The size of the population was 641 academic staff members across the three sampled faculties within the institution (Faculties of Education, Social Sciences, and Management Sciences). A sample size of 246 respondents was selected using the Taro Yamane formula.A comprehensive analysis of the collected data was conducted using SPSS version 20. Several significant findings have emerged from this analysis. The study's findings demonstrate substantial correlations between specific workplace practices and industrial conflicts. More precisely, there exists a notable and favorable correlation between workplace collective bargaining agreements and industrial disputes, suggesting that an increase in collective bargaining is associated with elevated levels of conflicts. Likewise, the presence of efficient systems for addressing complaints is linked to a rise in labor conflicts, indicating that while these systems try to resolve disagreements, they also expose underlying tensions. In contrast, the study found that joint consultation has a negligible impact on workplace conflicts, suggesting that it has little influence on the levels of disputes examined in this research.