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Human Rights and Trade Unionism in Africa: The Nigerian Experience

The linkage between human rights and trade unionism is theoretically and pragmatically a valid one, for trade unionism is a form of social action through which workers’ rights are supposedly protected. The relationship between human rights and trade unionism is that between ‘end’ and ‘means’; trade unionism is one of the mechanisms for ensuring human rights. If trade unionism champions workers’ rights, the relationship between human rights and trade union rights is that between ‘a whole’ and ‘a part’. At a more general level trade unionism has the capacity for promoting political rights, as it…