ILO Helpdesk: Tools and resources for business on freedom of association

Practical resources and tools

• ILO-UNGC learning plan: module on freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
• Committee on Freedom of Association
• Freedom of association - Compilation of decisions of the Committee on Freedom of Association (Sixth edition), 2018
• Compilation of decisions of the Committee on Freedom of Association
• ILO ACTEMP Building Effective Employers' Organisations
• In search of decent work- Migrant workers’ rights: A manual for trade unionists
• Freedom of Association and Development

Normative sources

• Labour standards on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
• Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, (No. 87) 1948
• Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
• Workers’ Representation Convention, 1971 (No. 135)
• Rural Workers’ Organisations Convention, 1975 (No. 141)
• ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) – 5th Edition (March 2017)

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See also

• • ILOSTAT – Statistics on union membership
• • Report III(1B): Giving globalization a human face (General Survey on the fundamental Conventions)
• • Giving a voice to rural workers
• • Reports of the Committee on Freedom of Association - 357th Report
• • Freedom of association
• • Freedom of association and collective bargaining (1994)
• • The Committee of Freedom of Association: Its impact over 50 years