Shop stewards training: Whose roles and responsibilities Ayantunji O. I.*, Ayantunji** *Ph.D., Department of Industrial Relations and Public Administration, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria **M. M., Department of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Online published on 21 November, 2013. Abstract One of the most controversial areas of industrial relations training is the training of shop stewards. Shop stewards are the grassroots leaders of trade unions. They exist to promote, protect and improve the economic, the social and the political interests of their members both in the workplace and in society. Shop stewards roles are bedeviled with many challenges which include their level of formal education. Training the shop stewards itself is a challenge. One of the challenges is whose roles responsibilities should the training of the shop stewards be most especially between the management and the unions – two sides that are critically involved in the training of shop stewards. This paper is an attempt to convince that shop stewards’ training is not even the responsibility of anyone of the two sides – management and unions – but the responsibility of all who are concerned in workers education since shop stewards training is not only a part but a critical part of workers education. Top Keywords Education, Training, Workers Education, Shop Stewards, Shop Stewards Courses. Top |