Interference by the authorities during the course of the strike (Right to strike)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
Document:1013
Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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Interference by the authorities during the course of the strike

640. In one case where the government had consulted the workers in order to determine whether they wished the strike to continue or be called off, and where the organization of the ballot had been entrusted to a permanent, independent body, with the workers enjoying the safeguard of a secret ballot, the Committee emphasized the desirability of consulting the representative organizations with a view to ensuring freedom from any infl uence or pressure by the authorities which might affect the exercise of the right to strike in practice.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 578.)

conducive to the climate free from violence, pressure or threats that is essential to the exercise of freedom of association.

(See 333rd Report, Case No. 2268, para. 765.)


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