The Impact of Trade Unions on Employee Performance in Cameroon: Teachers’ and Drivers’ Unions Cases

Year 2021, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 105 - 126, 01.10.2021

Fanso Collins Dinyuy Uğur Şener

Abstract

The intention of this research is to examine the impact of trade unionism
on employee performance in Cameroon. The teachers and the drivers
trade unions are selected as the scope of the study. Both quantitative
and qualitative data are collected with questionnaires and structured
interviews. Categorical data was analysed as proportions and frequencies
and the relationship between categorical variables was assessed using
Chi-Square test. The findings revealed by the study evidently show that
trade unions play a vital role in employee-performance in Cameroon. It is
revealed in this research that, the key reason teachers and drivers joined
trade unions in Cameroon is for the protection of workers’ rights. The
main strategies used by trade unions are organising, collective bargaining,
alliance building and action. It was also revealed that trade unions have as
core mandates, the promotion and protection of the rights and the socioeconomic
interest of their members. Therefore, as a recommendation,
Trade Unions should stay away from confrontation with employers and
make negotiations for collective bargaining. Also, employers should
provide upskilling and training opportunities to their employees as this
improves employee-performance. Conclusively, Teachers and Drivers’
Trade Unions in Cameroon should set as its top priority, the protection of
workers’ rights and promotion of their socio-economic interests.

Keywords

Trade Union, Employee performance, Cameroon, Chi-square, Anglophone crisis

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