Publications on freedom of association

December 2020

  1. Trade for Decent Work

    Agenda: ILO-EU Trade for Decent Work Project - National Tripartite Consultative Workshop

    14 December 2020

November 2020

  1. EU - ILO comparative review

    Individual and collective dispute resolution systems - A comparative review

    13 November 2020

    The present report investigates specific individual and collective labour dispute resolution practices and institutions in a selected sample of countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The countries were selected to reflect broadly different legal and industrial relations systems with diverse forms and traditions of dispute resolution.

September 2019

  1. Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

    Convening actors to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (CARING GOLD MINING PROJECT): Fact sheet

    23 September 2019

    The CARING Gold Mining Project’s overall goal is to increase to address child labour and working conditions issues in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) globally and in Ghana and the Philippines, its pilot countries. It does so by pursuing four outcomes, the first three to be carried out in the pilot countries and the fourth one on a global scale.

April 2019

  1. Highlights and Insights from the ILO project

    Promoting Decent Work in Garment Sector Global Supply Chains

    02 April 2019

    Highlights and insights from the ILO project "Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: a Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector (LSGSC)"

March 2018

  1. International Labour Review, Vol. 156 (2017), No. 3–4

    Positive class compromise in globalized production? The Freedom of Association Protocol in the Indonesian sportswear industry

    01 March 2018

    This article investigates the role of voluntary initiatives (VIs) as nongovernmental systems of labour regulation in global value chains (GVCs). To identify the conditions conducive to a more active role for labour in VIs, the authors apply Wright’s (2000) theory of the factors enabling positive class compromise to a VI implemented in the Indonesian sportswear industry and extend it to the more complex realities of GVCs. They conclude that if VIs are to create conditions under which decent work can be strengthened, the involvement of strong local labour organizations is required while producers’ and/or buyers’ dependence on workers’ cooperation acts as a catalyst.

October 2016

  1. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 59

    The (missing) link between wages and productivity in the Philippines: What role for collective bargaining and the new two-tier wage system?

    07 October 2016

March 2016

  1. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 73

    Productivity, wages and unions in Japan

    31 March 2016

November 2012

  1. Publication

    Decent Work in Myanmar - New ILO programme addresses the building of democracy

    14 November 2012

    This brochure outlines the ILO framework for its technical cooperation programme in Myanmar over the next few years. An annex details the projects involved.

November 2009

  1. Publication

    News@ILO, November 2009

    01 November 2009

    The November edition of the ILO's Asia Pacific e-newsletter contains the latest news from the regional office, a feature on migration policy in Thailand, a selection of the latest publications, and details of forthcoming events and meetings.

May 2009

  1. Meeting document

    Concept Note - Asia Pacific Conference on "Right to Form Unions and Right to Collective Bargaining: A Campaign for Ratification and Implementation of ILO Conventions 87 and 98"

    06 May 2009