Fuel Price Hike and Trade Union Negotiations, By Izielen Agbon - Premium Times Opinion

A strike is a tactical tool of class struggle used by workers to gain a power advantage during negotiation with their employers or the state as a representative of the power of capital or bourgeois rule/domination. A strike is not a strategic tool of class struggle. It is always temporary and never indefinite. It is aimed at the temporary withdrawal of labour power from the sphere of production, in order to bring production or the creation of surplus value to a halt.

The logical conclusion of the ideological capitulation of the labour leaders in Aso Rock, is that the Nigerian labour market should, just like the PMS market, be governed by market forces, without any trade union interventions. This implies not just the removal of the automatic deduction of labour union fees from workers’ wages, but also the removal of labour union interventions in the market for labour power.

Under Right-to-Work laws/rules, trade unions are not recognised as representatives of workers during negotiations. If market forces govern the labour market, then there is no need for the intervention of trade unions in the determination of the condition of work or wages understood as the price of labour power. Each worker handles his/her wage negotiation personally. They would not be required to belong to a trade union.

Izielen Agbon is an expert on petrochemicals and economics based in Texas, United States. E-mail: Izielenagbon@yahoo.com; Twitter: @izielenagbon

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