Strong unions are independent, membership-based organisations of workers that represent and negotiate on behalf of working people. They give advice when their members have problems at work, represent members in discussions with employers, and help improve wages and working conditions by negotiating with employers. Unions and employee organizing rights foster a vibrant middle class because of build trust among the workforce, ensure workplaces are safe, audit non-compliance with labour codes, improve staff retention, make better business decisions and promote equality, protections, rights, and wages that unions secure affect union and nonunion workers alike. Unions also make sure that their members’ legal rights are enforced, provide and broker education and learning opportunities for members, promote equal opportunities at work, fight against discrimination and help to ensure a healthy and safe working environment. Many unions provide services for their members, such as welfare benefits, personal legal help and financial services. We know that unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increases in pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions. But that’s not all unions do. Unions also have powerful effects on workers’ lives outside of work. Unfortunately, eroded labour standards, weakening unions, changing norms, guest worker policies that undercut wages, and monetary policies that prioritize controlling inflation over lowering unemployment have helped depress wages and erode living standards for all workers. EDTD monitors factors that affect Nigerian work lives, including unpaid overtime, wage theft, the minimum wage, immigration laws, and collective bargaining rights. EDTD researchers observe that lack of committed leadership, lack of internal democracy, government intervention, tribalism and nepotism, internal factionalism, apathetic attitude, poor economic climate and non-affiliation with foreign union are the major challenges that trade unions in Nigeria currently face. EDTD suggests among others that trade unions should imbibe the tenets of democracy in their internal administration.