Publications

November 2019

  1. Web Application on Freedom of Association

    02 November 2019

    How to secure and promote freedom of association? This web application provides an overview of the principles on freedom of association and explains how ILO procedures and bodies can be best used to secure and promote freedom of association across the world.

November 2016

  1. Characteristics and Structure of the Union Movement in Lebanon

    17 November 2016

    The study covers the history and present characteristics of the trade union movement in Lebanon as well as the structure of trade union movements, the results of a field survey and recommendations for a future trade union development.

April 2014

  1. Trade unions and worker cooperatives: Where are we at?

    01 April 2014

    Last May, ACTRAV and the ILO cooperative branch held a seminar on the topic of relations between trade unions and worker cooperatives. The goal was to re-examine the relationship between the two movements by taking stock of recent initiatives around the world. To be sure, the relationship between trade unions and cooperatives is as long as the history of trade unions. In fact, it is fair to say that the first associations of workers that emerged in Europe looked more like cooperatives than trade unions.

December 2013

  1. Multinationales Enterprises and Freedom of Association: Cases of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association

    24 December 2013

    Provides an overview of the violations of freedom of association that originated in major multinational enterprises, summarizing the facts alleged by the unions, the Committee's recommendations and the subsequent result, with the aim of highlighting one more time the importance of the Committee and of the international labour standards in general, for protecting the fundamental rights of workers around the world.

  2. Organizing for Decent Work in the Informal Economy-Strategies, Methods and Practices

    20 December 2013

    Based largely on empirical studies, this book makes an invaluable contribution by presenting trade union organizing strategies, methods and practices in South Asian countries.

March 1998

  1. Voices for freedom of association

    01 March 1998

    Labour Education 1998/3 No. 112: By a vote of 127 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions, the 31st Session of the International Labour Conference held in June and July 1948 adopted one of the most important Conventions in the sphere of labour relations and fundamental human rights: Convention No. 87 on freedom of association and protection of the right to organise.