Rights of federations and confederations (Right of employers’ and workers’ organizations to establish federations and confederations and to affiliate with international organizations of employers and workers)


Description:(CFA: Digest of Decisions 2006)
Subject classification: Freedom of Association
Document:1203
Subject: Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
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Rights of federations and confederations

(See also paras. 386, 387, 473, 483, 525, 561 and 562)

730. In order to defend the interests of their members more effectively, workers’ and employers’ organizations should have the right to form federations and confederations of their own choosing, which should themselves enjoy the various rights accorded to first-level organizations, in particular as regards their freedom of operation, activities and programmes.

(See the 1996 Digest, para. 621; 306th Report, Case No. 1884, para. 686; and 337th Report, Case No. 2327, para. 209.)

731. It is for union by-laws to determine the conditions of election of trade union officials.

(See 320th Report, Case No. 2007, para. 284.)
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