General principles (Right of workers and employers to establish and join organizations of their own choosing)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
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Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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General principles

309. The right of workers to establish and join organizations of their own choosing in full freedom cannot be said to exist unless such freedom is fully established and respected in law and in fact.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 271; 302nd Report, Case No. 1825, para. 491; 304th Report, Case No. 1712, para. 376; 318th Report, Case No. 1978, para. 217; 325th Report, Case No. 2109, para. 460; 333rd Report, Case No. 2133, para. 59, and Case No. 2301, para. 592; and 337th Report, Case No. 2388, para. 1353.)

310. The Committee has emphasized the importance that it attaches to the fact that workers and employers should in practice be able to establish and join organizations of their own choosing in full freedom.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 274; 302nd Report, Case No. 1840, para. 351; 304th Report, Case No. 1819, para. 156; 316th Report, Case No. 1989, para. 194; 325th Report, Case No. 2109, para. 460; 328th Report, Case No. 2160, para. 658; 332nd Report, Case No. 2262, para. 398, and Case No. 2233, para. 638.)


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