Daniel Funes de Rioja, President of the Social Policy Department of the Argentine Industrial Union and Chairman of the Employers' Group of the Organization of American States from 1995 to 1998, was re-elected as Employer Vice-chairperson. Sir Leroy Trotman, General Secretary, Barbados Workers' Union and spokesperson of the Workers' Group in the Governing Body, was re-elected Workers' Vice-chairperson. The three will serve as Officers of the Governing Body during its 2006-07 Session.
The Governing Body also approved the 342nd Report of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association, examining 31 cases. Altogether there are currently 102 cases before the Committee. (For further information, see press release ILO/06/32.)