摘要：The mandates of higher institutions are pursued through its main functions and activities of teaching, research, dissemination of existing and new information, and community services. However, in discharging these responsibilities, there are always conflicts within and among the groups of people in the educational system, namely students, academics, administrators, non academics and their unions. These categories of people have different purposes and expectations. The basic element of the paper is the concept of poor, power and politics otherwise referred to as the three PPPs in this paper. This paper examined the major issues, causes and concerns of labor conflict in Nigerian tertiary institutions. These causes were identified as conflict among unions, demand for better incentives against the available resources, breakdown in communication, conflict of interest, defiance and challenge to authority, over-estimation of individual freedom in democratic society, demonstrations against government policies and institutional decisions and others. Recommendations were made to the authorities to improve the situation.
