CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Strike defined by the Webster’s dictionary as an organization refusal to work by employees of an organization e.t.c because of a disagreement e.g. pay or condition. Strike can be defined as temporary stoppage of work in the pursuance of grievance   of demand. According to law 184, strike can be defined as they lessation of work by a body of person employed and acting in combination or collected refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of person employed to continue to work for an employer in consequence of a dispute, done as a means of completing their employer or any person or body or person employed, or to any person or anybody of employed to accept terms of employment of and physical condition of work.
“The key elements in the definition are  
-      Lessation of work “which simply means deliberately working at less than usual speed or with les than usual efficiency. And.
-      Refusal to continue to work’ includes a refusal to work of usual efficiency
FUNTUWA (1979) defined education as the aggregate of all the processes by which a child or adult develops their ability, attitudes and other forms of behaviors which are of positive value to the society.
Spencer (1963) asserts that education has for his object the formation of character. Dewey 91993) started that optimally education meant the intelligently directed development of possibilities where not in ordinary experience and which assist the individual in the direction of subsequent experience.
From the above concept education institution is aggregate of culture and society by means of which the process of transmitting relevant ideal, knowledge value and skill and training of individuals through various agencies of education especially the schools.
Overtime strike actions has been used a veritable tools of labour or management negotiation tactics, it has been used and some will say over used to low recalcitrant employer both in private and public sector.
Strike has an effect on workers in the public sector with special emphasis on LASU as an Educational Institution, parts of the effect to be considered include pay or condition, job insecurity les of motivation, paralysis of workers initiatives global academic standard e.t.c.   
The down turn and subsequent depression, inflatory treads and the degradation of the Nigerian economy in the past decade, has made the socio educational consequences of the emergency of various strike action by unions like the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (SSANU) the non Academic Staff Union (NASU), the Academic Staff Union University  (ASUU). These unions are responsible for a continuous association of wages earns for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of the working lives. The actions of the union in the educational institution in Nigeria are much powerful than the political parties because they have legitimate power to call out worker on strike.
The power in this collective of workers can promote the resolution of a variety of problems by the workforce.
The higher education in Nigeria is composed of universities, polytechnics, institutions of technology, colleges of education that from part of are affiliated to universities and polytechnics, colleges and professional specialized institutions of technology, colleges and professional specialized institutions. They can be further categorized as state or federal government Universities are owned and funded by the federal government, while state Universities owned and financed by the state government. First generation Universities are the six Universities established in the 1970’s while third generation.
Universities refer to the eleven institutions including the universities of Technology established in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Lagos State University was established in 1983. it fall between the second generation universities, Nigeria universities experienced a wave of strike as Lecturers ands student from one University after another demonstrate for different reasons.
The decay in Nigeria Institutions of Higher Learning is caused, in part, by the fact that lecturers and professors in Nigerian Universities go on strike for six to nine months. However, there are shortage of tools and facilities in Nigeria universities but constant strike by workers make academic decay in Nigeria institution worse, not better.
The problems we have highest are not unique to Nigeria alone, even in the united state, the professors are doing more less, indeed, this is the experience of many African Universities expert perhaps South Africa, but in is unusual to her that professor in this country go on strike every year.