ABSTRACT
The study focuses on the impact of collective bargaining process on the remuneration of workers in Intercontinental Distillers Limited. In other to establish this fact remuneration indicator (wages) and the collective bargaining indicators (bargaining power and length of union membership) were identified. Other collective bargaining indicators like workers motivation and productivity were also identified. Frequency distribution Tables, Spearman Rank order correlation was used to analyze the data so obtained from the administered questionnaires while the t-score statistical method was used to test the relevant hypotheses. Collective bargaining process tend to form the basis for wage determination in IDL (intercontinental Distillers Limited) workers unions and based on this it is recommended that good negotiation skills influenced by a well-informed trade union would go a long way to further enhance wage increases.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
From the primordial era, the association of people or the coming together of people in order to cam a living has been the major elements of human existence. This association which to a large extent is voluntary is however constraints by the fact that the parties involved are not able to choose their own workmates. Therefore, the relationship existing between these workmates has been otherwise referred to as industrial relations (FOBTOB Lecture September, 2007).
But the most important obligation owned by an employer to an employee is to pay his or her wages/salaries. Consequently, the fulfillment of this obligation tends to make up about sixty percent of the total cost of running the business (Cole, 2002).
However, one of the most important influences in the fulfillment of this obligation by a certain organization encompasses the presence of trade union and the subsequent bargaining strength of such a trade union.