COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND THE WELFARE OF WORKERS IN OIL PRODUCING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF EXXON MOBIL IBENO AKWA IBOM STATE

This study was designed to investigate collective bargaining and the welfare of workers in Exxon Mobil Company. Ibeno, Akwa Ibom State. This is because workers in Exxon Mobil Company has been finding it so difficult get their entitlement, like motivational package and other incentives, left with the salaries alone. The researcher uses survey inferential research design of 40 union representations both senior and junior staff and the instrument used for this study was questionnaire and chi-square was found fit for the work. The work shows that when the company was Mobile producing Nigeria Unlimited, the workers benefits, and other motivational package were intact, but since Exxon came to join with Mobil producing Nigeria unlimited to become Exxon Mobil, these motivational packages are withdrawn, left with salaries alone. Therefore, this work recommend that, collective bargaining should be practice (in Exxon Mobil, for peaceful co-existence between workers and the trade union for a good and peaceful working environment as before.