• General principles
  
• Trade union unity and pluralism
  
• Freedom of choice of trade union structure
  
• Sanctions imposed for attempting to establish organizations
  
• Favouritism or discrimination in respect of particular organizations
  
• Admissible privileges for most representative unions
  
• Right to join organizations freely
  
• Union security clauses
  

• Legislation on the subject and interference by the authorities
  
• Model constitutions
  
• Racial discrimination
  
• Relations between first-level trade unions and higher-level organizations
  

• General principles
  
• Electoral procedures
  
• Eligibility conditions
  
• Obligation to participate in ballots
  
• Intervention by the authorities in trade union elections
  
• Challenges to trade union elections
  
• Removal of executive committees and the placing of trade unions under control
  

• General principles
  
• Internal administration of organizations
  
• Control over the internal activities of trade unions
  
• Financial administration of organizations
  

• General principles
  
• Political activities and relations
  
• Other activities of trade union organizations
  

• Importance of the right to strike and its legitimate exercise
  
• Objective of the strike
  
• Types of strike action
  
• Prerequisites
  
• Recourse to compulsory arbitration
  
• Cases in which strikes may be restricted or even prohibited, and compensatory guarantees
  
• Situations in which a minimum service may be imposed to guarantee the safety of persons and equipment (minimum safety service)
  
• Situations and conditions under which a minimum operational service could be required
  
• Examples of when the Committee has considered that the conditions were met for requiring a minimum operational service
  
• Non-compliance with a minimum service
  
• Responsibility for declaring a strike illegal
  
• Back-to-work orders, the hiring of workers during a strike, requisitioning orders
  
• Interference by the authorities during the course of the strike
  
• Police intervention during the course of the strike
  
• Pickets
  
• Wage deductions
  
• Sanctions
  
• Discrimination in favour of non-strikers
  
• Closure of enterprises in the event of a strike
  

• General principles
  
• Voluntary dissolution
  
• Dissolution on account of insufficient membership
  
• Dissolution and suspension by administrative authority
  
• Cancellation of registration or trade union status
  
• Dissolution by legislative measures
  
• Reasons for dissolution
  
• Intervention by the judicial authorities
  
• Use made of the assets of organizations that are dissolved
  

• Establishment of federations and confederations
  
• Affiliation with federations and confederations
  
• Rights of federations and confederations
  
• Affiliation with international organizations of workers and employers
  
• Participation in ILO meetings
  

• General principles
  
• Workers protected
  
• Forms of discrimination
  
• Trade union leaders and representatives
  
• Need for rapid and effective protection
  
• Reinstatement of trade unionists in their jobs
  
• Discrimination against employers
  

• General principles
  
• Solidarist or other associations
  

• The right to bargain collectively - General principles
  
• Workers covered by collective bargaining
  
• Subjects covered by collective bargaining
  
• The principle of free and voluntary negotiation
  
• Mechanisms to facilitate collective bargaining
  
• The principle of bargaining in good faith
  
• Collective bargaining with representatives of non-unionized workers
  
• Recognition of the most representative organizations
  
• Determination of the trade union(s) entitiled to negociate
  
• Rights of miniority unions
  
• Determination of employers' organizations entitled to negotiate
  
• Representation of organizations in the collective bargaining process
  
• Level of bargaining
  
• Restrictions on the principle of free and voluntary bargaining
  
• Time-limits for bargaining
  
• Duration of collective agreements
  
• Extension of collective agreements
  
• Relationship between individual employment contracts and collective agreements
  
• Incentives to workers to give up the right to collective bargaining
  
• Closure of the enterprise and application of the collective agreement
  
• Relationship between ILO Conventions
  

• General principles
  
• Consultation during the preparation and formulation of legislation
  
• Consultation and employment flexibility
  
• Consultation and processes of restructuring, rationalization and staff reduction
  
• Consultation concerning the bargaining process
  
• Consultations on the redistribution of the assets of trade unions which have been dissolved
  

• General principles
  
• Collection of dues
  
• Access to the management
  
• Access to the workplace
  
• Free time accorded to workers' representatives
  
• Facilities on plantations
  

Annex I: Procedures of the Fact-Finding and Conciliation Commission and the Committee on Freedom of Association for the examination of complaints alleging violations of freedom of association

Annex II: Chronological index of cases