10.2190/8R7U-NMM6-92DB-X4BU 8R7UNMM692DBX4BU 0 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE NIGERIAN CASE 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=8R7UNMM692DBX4BU 2 TAYO FASHOYIN In spite of the unequivocal acceptance of the collective bargaining process in Nigeria's public sector, it is supplementary to other methods that have a far more significant impact on the employment conditions of employees. This development arose primarily from the disposition of governments, as employers, to use parallel approaches for regulating employment conditions in the public sector. These methods serve as competing mechanisms, and the choice of which to use is influenced partly by workers' economic weapons and partly by politicization of the process of wage determination. The paper concludes that increasing economic difficulties have compounded the problem of collective bargaining, as the desire for decentralization and employers' unilateral powers in employment decisions have grown. The trend toward use of political methods as catalysts in the system of employment determination will continue, while collective bargaining will continue to play a subsidiary role.