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ILO to Support Nigeria in Formulating National Policy on Industrial Relations

The International Labour Organization (ILO) Abuja Country Office has pledged its support towards formulating a National Policy on Industrial Relations for the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Employment provision is among the biggest contributions of cooperatives to the sustainable development agenda

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, Bruno Roelants, the newly...

Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining and negotiation skills highlighted in workshop as vital tools to ensure good industrial relations in Pakistan

A four-day training workshop for ILO’s tripartite constituents on ‘Collective Bargaining and Negotiation Skills’ concluded on 11 January 2018 in Karachi. The participants acquired knowledge of the relevant ILO Conventions on Freedom of Association...

News

Advancing human rights at work - A look back at 2017

2017 has been a significant year in advancing fundamental principles and rights at work. Working with governments, social partners and communities, the ILO FUNDAMENTALS Branch has helped those who cannot organize and bargain collectively, those...

Our impact, their voices

A win-win result through social dialogue

Social dialogue training builds empathy between employers and workers in Bangladesh

Opening Remarks at High Level Meeting on Sectoral Collective Bargaining in the Coal Mine Sector on Job-Based Wage System

By Mr Tim De Meyer, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union: Contributing to job creation and local community development through associated work

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Mr Osamu...

Tripartism and social dialogue

Towards greater transparency in union registration and labour practice

Trade unions gain awareness of standard operating procedures for unfair labour practices and trade union registrations.

Press and integration

Media plays critical role in ensuring fair gains of economic growth

A media workshop is organized to help Vietnamese labour journalists gain in-depth knowledge on industrial relations issues in economic integration.

Freedom of Association

Message at the Tripartite Project Launch of the ILO EU GSP+ on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

By Mr Sonny Matula, National President of the Federation of Free Workers (FFW-ITUC) in the Philippines at the Tripartite Project Launch of the ILO EU GSP+ on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

Freedom of Association

Keynote Address at the Tripartite Project Launch of the ILO EU GSP+ on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

By Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod, Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) at the Tripartite Project Launch of the ILO EU GSP+ on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

Provincial Dialogue on Industrial Relations and Labour Laws - Baluchistan

All Pakistan Labour Federation (APLF) during a worker's seminar arranged in Quetta with the technical support of ILO's EU funded Project on Sustaining GSP Plus in Pakistan highlighted the importance of increased trade unionism, collective...

Industrial relations

Viet Nam’s 1st Industrial Relations Summer School now open for applications

Enrolment closing date is 30 June 2017.

Labour Law Reform in Montenegro

Workshop to Discuss International Labour Standards and EU Law in Montenegro

Working Group members met to discuss ongoing Labour Law Reform in Montenegro in Kolasin on 9-10 May, 2017. Participants, including CEELex experts from Hungary and Romania, were looking into principles of related EU and ILO conventions. Tripartite...

Training prepares women organisers for trade union leadership roles

Collective bargaining

Canada ratifies the Collective Bargaining Convention

Canada has now ratified all eight ILO Fundamental Conventions

Greece

Labour market reforms in Greece

On 29 May, the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament organized an exchange of views on labour market reforms in Greece.

President of Uruguay at the ILO Conference: Social dialogue and collective bargaining are essential for progress

Without agreements, there is no progress, President Tabaré Vázquez said at the opening day of the ILO annual meeting in Geneva. In his message to delegates, he warned that "we must not wait for the future, we must build it."

Workers Resource Centre to support trade unions

The establishment of a Workers Resource Centre (WRC) to support the operation and capacity of trade unions takes a step closer.

Rights at work

ILO and MOHRSS kick off a development cooperation project to promote harmonious labour relations through collective bargaining

The project is to strengthen the effectiveness of collective negotiations and enhance institutional capacity of constituents, and promote more effective institutions and governance frameworks for collective bargaining and collective negotiation...