Section 24 of the Trade Union Act(Cap 437)(LFN, 1990) provides that i) Subject to this section, where there is a trade union of which persons in the employment of an employer are members, that trade union shall, without further assurance, on registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be entitled to recognition by the employer ii) If an employer deliberately fails to recognise any trade union registered pursuant to the provision of sub-section(1) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary to a fine of N1,000(which is less than US$7, using an exchange rate of$1:N151) This provision can also be construed to mean that once there is a union recognised within the industry, individual employers are bound to recognise it and should not do anything to infringe or impinge on the right of workers to freely join such a union. This provision of the Trade Union Act should also be taken along with that of the Labour Act which provides that the membership or non-membership of a union should not be a pre­condition for employment. These are provisions which are breached with impunity by employers in the three sectors covered by this study, with the telecommunication sector being the most guilty followed by the banking and finance sector. How else can one explain the fact that the major players in the telecommunication sector for instance (MTN, ZAIN and GLO) do not allow their employees to unionise and no sanctions are imposed by the appropriate authorities. The Factories Act(Cap 126, LFN, 1990) is also worth highlighting here. This is because it is the main piece of legislation that addresses the safety of workers so that s/he is not endangered while providing for the needs of others in society. The Act(S.87) defines a factory as“any premises in which or within which, or within the close or cartilage or precincts of which one person is, or more persons are, employed in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely­a) the making of any article or of part of any article; or b) the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, or washing, or the breaking up or demolition of any article; or c) the adapting for sale of any article, being premises in which, or within the close or cartilage or precincts of which, the work 15