Pihak Kementerian mendakwa bahawa MTUC telah menghalang kerajaan menandatangani ILO Convention 87 mengenai kebebasan berpersatuan dan menjamin hak untuk 'organize')[Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise]
“Kemungkinan MTUC telah melupakan pendiriannya sendiri yang menolak prinsip C87, kebebasan yang boleh membawa kepada perpecahan kesatuan di tempat kerja.
But today, the human resources ministry said MTUC had previously rejected the principle of C87 on the freedom to organise trade unions as this could lead to a multiplicity of unions in the workplace. “MTUC cannot be selective by asking the government to ratify C87 while they themselves are objecting to this principle that defines the very foundation of C87,” it said in a statement.It added that ratification of any convention means adherence to all principles of the convention.
MTUC setelah itu menafikan dakwaan berkenaan. Bagi pekerja yang sudah mempunyai kesatuan, mungkin hak berkesatuan tak gitu penting TETAPI untuk jutaan pekerja di Malaysia yang masih tidak ada kesatuan sekerja, ianya sangat penting - ini bukan isu pekerja migran tetapi berkenaan jutaan pekerja Malaysia yang masih tidak ada kesatuan sekerja ..
Jika pekerja seorang menuntut hak tambahan atau keadaan kerja yang lebih selamat, senang sekali Majikan tak mengendahkan atau peduli tuntutan berkenaan.
TETAPI jika ramai perkerja secara bersama atau secara solidariti membuat tuntutan, keadaan berubah dan majikan kemungkinan lebih akan mendengar dan seteruskan memberikan hak yang dituntut..
Ini adalah pemikiran di belakang atau alasan yang membawa kepada kewujudan Kesatuan Sekerja(Trade Union) - pekerja bersatu secara bersolidariti berjuang bersama menuntut hak atau keadaan kerja yang lebih baik...
Kesatuan Sekerja pada mulanya tidak pun perlu berdaftar dan cara beroperasi ditentukan oleh ahli-ahli Kesatuan ..
Di Malaysia, pada mulanya wujud beraneka jenis kesatuan sekerja termasuk kesatuan yang boleh disertai mana-mana pekerja tak kira di mana pekerja bekerja dari segi tempat kerja atau juga sektor - Kesatuan sedemikian sememangnya kuat... TETAPI PIHAK PENJAJAH BRITISH tidak suka atau mahu pekerja atau kesatuan yang KUAT - mereka mahu menghancurkan solidariti pekerja - mahu melemahkan kesatuan...justeru inilah apa yang British buat...
PENDAFTARAN - mereka mahu semua Kesatuan didaftarkan...justeru kena buat permohonan pendaftaran kepada kerajaan British ...dan banyak syarat baru dari segi siapa boleh jadi pemimpin, jenis kesatuan dibenarkan, apa yang boleh kesatuan buat dan tidak boleh buat..Kesatuan keahlian pekerja berbagai tempat kerja dan sektor DIHARAMKAN...Kesatuan hanya boleh untuk pekerja dalam SATU tempat kerja atau SATU sektor atau SATU Industri. Kesatuan yang ahali ahli pekerja awam dan pekerja sektor swasta diharamkan. Perhubungan di antara kesatuan berlainan juga diharamkan - justeru tidak boleh ada Gabuangan kesatuan-kesatuan...TAKTIK 'PISAHKAN DAN LEMAHKAN' digunakan...Kepimpinan baru dilatih kerajaan ...kesatuan dihadkan kepada isu pekerja-majikan sahaja...Bila memohon pendaftaran, kerajaan boleh meluluskan atau tidak - justeru KESATUAN dikawal....[Sebelum undang-undang dan taktik 'lemahkan Kesatuan British' lebih daripada 50% pekerja di Malaya adalah ahli kesatuan....kini hanya lebih kurang 7% pekerja di Malaysia ahli kesatuan...lebih kurang 4.5% pekerja sektor swasta ahli kesatuan...
MERDEKA - Malangnya rantai yang menyekat solidariti dan kekuatan, justeru kemampuan pekerja membela dan berjuang untuk hak tidak dibuang oleh regim kerajaan UMNO-BN...malah, kerajaan UMNO-BN terus menyekat kebebasan dan keupayaan pekerja dan kesatuan dengan undang-undang baru...usaha dan strategi pihak PENJAJAH ...diteruskan oleh regim UMNO-BN...
The state of the labour movement in Malaysia (Part 1)
The origins of the labour movement in M’sia (Part 2 of a series)
How the British suppressed the Malayan labour movement (Part 3)
The last breath of the labour movement?(Part 4)
MAY 2018 - REGIM BARU...KERAJAAN BARU ...sehingga kini PEKERJA DAN KESATUAN masih tidak bebas...rantai menghalang kebebasan dan kekuatan pekerja dan kesatuan masih wujud...adakah polisi PRO-Majikan...PRO-perniagaan dan 'profit' perniagaan diteruskan?
Worker and Trade Union Rights in BN-ruled Malaysia - A pro-business government that undermined worker rights, welfare and livelihood -
KESATUAN pula terus lemah...dan kepimpinan juga kebanyakkan lemah ... jadi 'pak turut' polisi pemerintah...ANIH SEKALI, DI MALAYSIA, SENJATA TERKUAT KESATUAN, yang masih boleh dipakai walaupun adabanyak rintangan/halangan undang-undang, iaitu MOGOK tidak dipakai ...sudah lebih kurang 3 atau 4 Dekad, tak dengar mana-mana kesatuan sah di Malaysia mogok atau pun
APA YANG DIPERLUKAN DI MALAYSIA?
- Semua halangan sedia wujud yang dikemukakan oleh Penjajah British dan seterusnya kerajaan UMNO-BN yang kini melemahkan pekerja dan kesatuan sekerja TERUTAMA
* Membenarkan kesatuan (GLU - General Labour Union), kesatuan di mana semua pekerja berhak menjadi ahli tak kira tempat kerja, sektor pekerjaan...ini kini wujud di banyak negara termasuk di Indonesia. Ini penting kerana kontrak jangka pendek - satu tahun pekerja kerja kilang letronik..tahun seterusnya sektor perladangan ...selepas itu sektor pembinaan...
* Membuang halangan satu union satu tempat kerja ATAU satu union satu sektor atau industri..
- Ini penting kerana kini pekerja tak ada pilihan terpaksa menyertai HANYA satu union, jika sudah ada di tempat kerja atau sektor/industri...jika ada lebih pilihan, akan bererti ada saingan mencari ahli dan berkhidmat untuk ahli dan kesatuan secara am akan menjadi lebih aktif - union yang tak aktif atau malas atau tak berani berjuang...akan ditolak ahli.
KINI - setengah kesatuan dalaman yang di dalam tangan pekerja pro-majikan atau pro-kerajaan akan juga menolak atau tak mahu ambil ahli baru yang kuat dan mahu berjuang....atau mereka yang mungkin akan mencabar kepimpinan sedia ada. Sifat sedemikian melihat kesatuan wujud...tetapi ahli mungkin tidak tambah atau mengurang...dan pekerja lain mungkin secara langsung atau tak langsung dinafikan hak berkesatuan. Parti politik di Malaysia pun banyak ...kita ada banyak pilihan tetapi kesatuan kita tak ada...
Kesatuan Nasional/Regional - banyak nampaknya sudah tak cari ahli baru atau melakukan kerja 'ORGANIZING' di dalam tempat kerja yang berada dalam sektor atau bidangkuasa kesatuan national/regional berkenaan. Berapa banyak ladang di Malaysia yang masih tidak ada ahli dalam kesatuan berkenaan, NUPW? Berapa banyak syarikat elektronik yang tak adapun beberapa ahli dalam kesatuan elektronik - jika union ada buat ORGANIZING(kerja mendapatkan ahli baru khusus dalam syarikat yang tak ada union). semestinya semua syarikat di bawah bidangkuasa kesatuan kebangsaan/regional kini sudah ada satu atau berpuluhan ahli, walaupun masih belum dapat lebih 50% pekerja syarikat berkenaan menjadi ahli...jumlah perlu untuk mendapatkan pengiktirafan PAKSA(ikut undang-undang) syarikat supaya boleh memasuki Collective Bargaining Agreement - ingat bahawa syarikat majikan walaupun kesatuan tak ada lebih 50% ahli boleh terus mengiktiraf kesatuan) - Kegagalan kesatuan national/regional ini boleh dilihat dengan penambahan jumlah kesatuan dalaman..
'Pengalaman peribadi - Dahulu ada sekumpulan pekerja LRT datang jumpa saya kerana mereka mahu union - Saya telah memperkenalkan mereka kepada Union national berkenaan - Transport Workers Union(TWU). Mereka telah berjumpa dengan TWU beberapa kali tetapi mereka sedih kerana nampaknya TWU tidak begitu minat..akhirnya pekerja tersebut boring - terus membuat keputusan mendaftarkan union dalaman sahaja...'
Kecuali union macam NUBE, yang nampaknya telah berjaya organize pekerja dihampir semua bank di Malaysia, dan kini banyak bank ada kesatuan iaitu NUBE - kesatuan national/regional lain nampaknya gagal menambah ahli mereka atau syarikat majikan di mana mereka sudah mewakili pekerja. SILAP siapa? Mungkin silap kepimpinan kesatuan atau kesatuan nasional/regional tersebut - mungkin mereka fikir sudah cukup ahli tak perlu tambah lagi - tak mahu kerja terlampau kuat kerana kini sudah dapat pengiktirafan kerajaan sebagi kesatuan mewakili sektor/industri berkenaan...jadi tidak mahu kerja kuat dapat ahli baru atau syarikat majikan baru di mana union diiktiraf...INI JUGA MUNGKIN SEBAB TAK ADA SAINGAN DARIPADA KESATUAN LAIN YANG ADA HAK ORGANISE PEKERJA BERKENAAN DALAM TEMPAT KERJA BERKENAAN, DALAM SEKTOR/INDUSTRI BERKENAAN - yang rugi dan mangsa sifat sedemikian adalah pekerja ...kerana yang menghalang hak mereka berkesatuan adalah kesatuan sekerja sendiri...
Jika halangan satu union satu tempat kerja, satu union satu sektor/industri, dikeluarkan pekerja ada pilihan dan semua kesatuan terpaksa 'bangun dari tidur' dan kerja kuat untuk mendapatkan lebihj ramai ahli...
Kini untuk mendapatkan pengiktirafan syarikat supaya boleh memasuki Perjanjian Bersama(Collective Bargaining Agreement) adalah 50% daripada ahli tempat kerja majikan...ini terlalu tinggi dan tidak adil. Ada setengah pekerja langsung tak minat jadi ahli kesatuan...atau tak mahu jadi ahli kerana 'takut' tindak balas majikan yang mungkin menjejaskan kenaikkan gaji...pangkat.. JUSTERU, adalah adil bahawa keperluan bilangan(atau sokongan) pekerja majikan harus diturunkan kepada 15-20% sahaja - mana-mana kesatuan ada ahli lebih 15-20% pekerja syarikat majikan HARUS diiktiraf sebagai kesatuan - justeru boleh juga masukkan Perjanjian bersama(CBA). Jika ada 3 Kesatuan berjaya mencapai matlamat mendapat lebih 15-20% ahli, jadi ketiga-tiga union pun diiktiraf - dan boleh buat Perjanjian Bersama(CBA)..itu ADIL untuk pekerja dan kesatuan...[Tambahan, kini majikan ikut undang-undang boleh ambil pekerja kontrak jangka pendek - 3 bulan, 5 bulan, 10 bulan atau satu tahun - dan pekerja sedemikian ramai tak minat jadi ahli kesatuan kerana juga tak mahu majikan 'marah' mungkin tak dapat peluang kontrak dilanjutkan atau kontrak baru di beri...justeru, jika undi pun, amat sukar untuk kesatuan dapat sokongan lebih 50% pekerja syarikat majikan - justeru keperluan ini perlu dikurangkan kepada 15-20% sahaja - kenapa nafikan hak pekerja yang mahu kesatuan?]
CONTRACTOR FOR LABOUR(COL) - banyak syarikat majikan membuat perjanjian dengan COL untuk COL membekalkan pekerja mereka kerja dekat syarikat majikan...kita panggil mereka 'pekerja outsourcing'...di mana kerajaan baru kita ini pun sehingga kini tidak mahu menghapuskan sistem 'Contractor For Labour', walaupun banyak parti politik dalam kerajaan semasa jadi pembangkang sokong MTUC dan pekerja menuntut penghapusan sistem COL ini. COL boleh bantu cari pekerja untuk majikan, tetapi bila mula kerja di tempat kerja syarikat majikan secara OTOMATIK harus diserap dan menjadi pekerja majikan tempat kerja.
Penambahan pengunaan pekerja bekalan COL secara terus juga mengurangkan keupayaan dan kuasa kesatuan mewakili pekerja majikan - sukar untuk berjaya menambahkan hak. [Kini tak adapun undang-undang menghadkan berapa banyak pekerja bekalan COL yang boleh digunakan di tempat kerja majikan - justeru, 90-100% pekerja ditempat majikan boleh jadi pekerja 'outsourcing' bekalan COL - apa lagi kuasa kesatuan sekerja atau pekerja majikan tempat kerja buat tuntutan minta hak lebih?
Kini, pekerja COL boleh menubuhkan kesatuan sekerja - tetapi sehingga kini, saya percaya, satu pun tak ada. Bila kesatuan national/regional masuk cuba menubuhkan kesatuan, COL selaku majikan boleh dengan senang menangkis usaha kesatuan dengan alasan majoriti pekerjanya tak kerja dalam sektor/industri kesatuan sekerja tersebut...Boleh jadi, bila kerja 'organising' dimulakan, majoriti pekerja COL kerja sektor elektronik ...tetapi senang COL mula bekalkan lebih kepada sektor perladangan, sebagai contoh, justeru bila pengataan dibuat menyatakan majoriti pekerjanya tak kerja di sektor elektronik...kerana pada masa itu, itu sudah menjadi hakikat...kini mungkin majoriti kerja ladang.
Nampaknya kerajaan PH tidak prihatin terhadap pekerja sama saperti UMNO-BN? Majikan tempat kerja harus satu-satu majikan semua pekerja yang kerja di tempat kerja?
Abolish 'Contractor for Labour System' That is Weakening Unions and Workers Capacity to Protect Rights?
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93 - Mansuhkan Sistem ‘Contractor for Labour’ Tarikbalik pindaan 2012 kepada Akta Kerja 1955.
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SEMUA ini menghalang hak pekerja berkesatuan...TAK CUKUP BERI HAK tetapi juga mesti memudahkan cara pekerja menikmati hak tersebut...
AHLI KESATUAN tidak harus hilang hak ahli bila berhenti kerja di satu tempat kerja ...Bila keahlian kesatuan tamat harus ditetapkan oleh ahli dan kesatuan saja - bukan kerajaan melalui undang-undang.
Jika permohonan pendaftaran kesatuan dibuat, kerajaan mesti luluskan cepat (dalam 2 minggu paling lama)...tindakan melewatkan kelulusan pendaftaran adalah tindakan 'union busting' yang dilakukan kerajaan. Kini, undang-undang kata union tak boleh buat apa-apa sehingga pendaftaran diluluskan - ini termasuk organizing cari ahli..adakn pertemuan. Justeru lagi lama mahu lulus boleh mematikan usaha tubuh kesatuan sekerja..
AKHIR KATA
- hapuskan 1 union 1 tempat kerja atau industri/sektor/jenis pekerjaan > Pekerja berhak ada pilihan mahu tubuh atau sertai union lain{Tak lojik hanya satu parti politik di Malaysia - sama juga tak lajik ada 1 union sahaja - pekerja berhak berapa banyak union mereka mahu, dan sama ada union untuk tempat kerja atau union untuk semua pekerja(tak kira sektor/industri) ATAU union untuk sektor tertentu - PILIHAN ditangan pekerja BUKAN kerajaan dan undang-undang zalim dan menyekat hak?
- Pengiktirafan oleh syarikat majikan dipinda > Jika ada ahli/sokongan 15-20% pekerja tempat kerja majikan adalah memadai... melebihi 50% tak adil langsung. [Setengah pekerja tak mahu union - hak mereka dihormati TETAPI mengapa menghalang hak pekerja yang mahu kesatuan walaupun hanya 15-20% pekerja di tempat kerja majikan.] Di Malaysia, rakyat boleh pilih tidak mendaftar untuk undi...tetapi kenapa hak berkesatuan boleh dihalang oleh pekerja lain ??? dan keperluan melebihi 50% ini?
- Sistem COL menjahanamkan kuasa pekerja untuk tuntut kerana majikan boleh dengan senang sekal;i beroperasi tanpa pekerja sendiri...pakai saja pekerja 'outsource' dari COL. Sistem COL mesti dihapuskan - semua pekerja di tempat kerja mestilah PEKERJA MAJIKAN TEMPAT KERJA..
Didn’t you oppose convention on freedom of association, ministry asks MTUC
PETALING JAYA: The human resources ministry today called out the
Malaysian Trades Unions Congress (MTUC) for wanting to seek help from
the United Nations to ratify an international convention which the union
had previously opposed.
Yesterday, MTUC said it had asked the United Nations global labour
centre to push Putrajaya to ratify the Freedom of Association and
Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 (C87).
The convention deals with the fundamental freedom of association of all workers, including migrants.
Ratifying C87, MTUC secretary-general J Solomon said, will
be most crucial as it would allow
migrant workers to join unions of
their choice and prevent their exploitation.
But today, the human resources ministry said MTUC had previously
rejected the principle of C87 on the freedom to organise trade unions as
this could lead to a multiplicity of unions in the workplace.
“MTUC cannot be selective by asking the government to ratify C87
while they themselves are objecting to this principle that defines the
very foundation of C87,” it said in a statement.
It added that ratification of any convention means adherence to all principles of the convention.
The ministry went on to say that it had proposed amendments to both
the Trade Union Act 1959 and the Industrial Relations Act 1967, based on
the principles of C87.
It also said it conducted extensive engagement with stakeholders on labour law reforms.
In fact, the ministry revealed, with the help of the
International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Kuala Lumpur, it had acquired
the services of an expert on C87 from Geneva to explain and help in the
adoption of the principles of C87.
And while these proposed amendments would still need approval from
the government, the ministry said that MTUC wanted a moratorium of 10
years before the amendments could be enforced.
“The ministry then had to abandon the draft and continued with the
necessary amendments to both the acts, without the principles of C87.” - FMT, 21/6/2019
MTUC: Get M’sia to ratify convention on right of association of all workers
20 Jun 2019 / 18:21 H.
KUALA LUMPUR:
The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has asked the United Nations
global labour centre to use all within its means to get Malaysia to
ratify Convention 87 (C87), which deals with the fundamental freedom of
association of all workers, including migrants.
Speaking at the
International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) centenary conference in Geneva
on Thursday, MTUC secretary-general J. Solomon said the new Malaysian
government had shown some commitment to reform the archaic labour laws
but ratifying C87 will be the most important, as the millions of migrant
workers will be represented by unions.
Among the binding
articles in the Convention is that workers and employers, without
distinction whatsoever, would have the right to establish and, subject
only to the rules of the organisation concerned, to join organisations
of their own choosing without previous authorisation.
Workers’
and employers’ organisations would have the right to draw up their
constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom,
to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their
programmes, MTUC said.
He was speaking at the closing of the
session after the signing of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) by
Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran, ILO, the Malaysian Employers
Federation and the MTUC in Geneva. The text of his speech was released
here.
Besides this, Solomon said, public authorities should
refrain from any interference which would restrict this right or impede
the lawful exercise thereof.
“Ratifying this Convention would
allow all migrant workers to join unions of their choice and prevent
their exploitation which is happening now.
“The spirit of the
proposed labour reforms by the new Pakatan Harapan government will free
these workers from bondage and exploitation,“ he said.
“This
ratification will also mean that foreign workers will enjoy the same
benefits enjoyed by all Malaysian workers. Malaysia must ratify C87 as
soon as possible,“ he said.
Solomon said the ILO should play a
key role on convincing the Malaysian government as this involved workers
from all over the world coming to Malaysia to earn a decent living,
adding that the situation here is reaching a critical level.
Solomon
said for the signing of DWCP to be meaningful and not just a ceremony
with much fanfare, the Malaysian government and MEF should incorporate
the elements from this document in the proposed labour reforms as it
would be meaningless otherwise.
“The onus is also on the ILO to use its influence here,“ he added. — Bernama - Sun Daily, 20/6/2019
Kementerian kesal dengan kenyataan MTUC di Geneva
KUALA LUMPUR 21
Jun - Kementerian Sumber Manusia kesal dengan kenyataan Kongres Kesatuan
Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC) bahawa ia akan mendapatkan bantuan Pertubuhan
Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) agar Malaysia meratifikasi Konvensyen 87
(C87), yang menyentuh tentang kebebasan asas persatuan semua pekerja,
termasuk pekerja asing.
Kementerian dalam kenyataan memberitahu, pindaan
terhadap Akta Kesatuan Sekerja 1959 dan Akta Perhubungan Perusahaan
1967 telah dicadangkan berdasarkan prinsip yang selari dengan C87.
“Kemungkinan
MTUC telah melupakan pendiriannya sendiri yang menolak prinsip C87,
kebebasan yang boleh membawa kepada perpecahan kesatuan di tempat kerja.
“Dengan meratifikasi C87 bermakna perlu
patuh terhadap semua prinsip konvensyen itu. MTUC tidak boleh memilih
dengan meminta kerajaan meratifikasi C87 sementara mereka sendiri
membantah prinsip yang ada di dalamnya,” kata kenyataan itu di sini hari
ini.
Khamis lalu, Setiausaha Agung MTUC,
J. Solomon yang bercakap pada persidangan ulang tahun ke-100 Pertubuhan
Buruh Antarabangsa (ILO) di Geneva meminta pusat buruh global PBB
berusaha sedaya-upaya agar Malaysia meratifikasi C87.
Tambah
kenyataan itu, kementerian telah mengadakan perbincangan secara meluas
dengan pihak berkepentingan mengenai pembaharuan undang-undang buruh.
“Malah,
kementerian dengan bantuan ILO di Kuala Lumpur telah mendapatkan
perkhidmatan pakar C87, yang terpaksa terbang dari Geneva, untuk
menjelaskan dan membantu mengaplikasikan prinsip C87,” kata kenyataan
itu. - UTUSAN ONLINE,21/6/2019
C087 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87)
Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at San Francisco by the Governing Body of
the International Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-first
Session on 17 June 1948;
Having decided to adopt, in the form of a Convention, certain
proposals concerning freedom of association and protection of the right
to organise, which is the seventh item on the agenda of the session;
Considering that the Preamble to the Constitution of the
International Labour Organisation declares "recognition of the principle
of freedom of association" to be a means of improving conditions of
labour and of establishing peace;
Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia reaffirms that
"freedom of expression and of association are essential to sustained
progress";
Considering that the International Labour Conference, at its
Thirtieth Session, unanimously adopted the principles which should form
the basis for international regulation;
Considering that the General Assembly of the United Nations, at
its Second Session, endorsed these principles and requested the
International Labour Organisation to continue every effort in order that
it may be possible to adopt one or several international Conventions;
adopts this ninth day of July of the year one thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight the following Convention, which may be cited as
the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise
Convention, 1948:
PART I. FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
Article 1
Each Member of the International Labour Organisation for which this
Convention is in force undertakes to give effect to the following
provisions.
Article 2
Workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever, shall have
the right to establish and, subject only to the rules of the
organisation concerned, to join organisations of their own choosing
without previous authorisation.
Article 3
- 1. Workers' and employers' organisations shall have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes.
- 2. The public authorities shall refrain from any interference which would restrict this right or impede the lawful exercise thereof.
Article 4
Workers' and employers' organisations shall not be liable to be dissolved or suspended by administrative authority.
Article 5
Workers' and employers' organisations shall have the right to
establish and join federations and confederations and any such
organisation, federation or confederation shall have the right to
affiliate with international organisations of workers and employers.
Article 6
The provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 4 hereof apply to federations and confederations of workers' and employers' organisations.
Article 7
The acquisition of legal personality by workers' and employers'
organisations, federations and confederations shall not be made subject
to conditions of such a character as to restrict the application of the
provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 4 hereof.
Article 8
- 1. In exercising the rights provided for in this Convention workers and employers and their respective organisations, like other persons or organised collectivities, shall respect the law of the land.
- 2. The law of the land shall not be such as to impair, nor shall it be so applied as to impair, the guarantees provided for in this Convention.
Article 9
- 1. The extent to which the guarantees provided for in this Convention shall apply to the armed forces and the police shall be determined by national laws or regulations.
- 2. In accordance with the principle set forth in paragraph 8 of Article 19 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation the ratification of this Convention by any Member shall not be deemed to affect any existing law, award, custom or agreement in virtue of which members of the armed forces or the police enjoy any right guaranteed by this Convention.
Article 10
In this Convention the term
organisation
means any organisation of workers or of employers for furthering and defending the interests of workers or of employers.
PART II. PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANISE
Article 11
Each Member of the International Labour Organisation for which this
Convention is in force undertakes to take all necessary and appropriate
measures to ensure that workers and employers may exercise freely the
right to organise.
PART III. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Article 12
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1.In respect of the territories referred to in Article
35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation as
amended by the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation
Instrument of Amendment 1946, other than the territories referred to in
paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said article as so amended, each Member of the
Organisation which ratifies this Convention shall communicate to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office with or as soon as
possible after its ratification a declaration stating:
- (a) the territories in respect of which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied without modification;
- (b) the territories in respect of which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to modifications, together with details of the said modifications;
- (c) the territories in respect of which the Convention is inapplicable and in such cases the grounds on which it is inapplicable;
- (d) the territories in respect of which it reserves its decision.
- 2. The undertakings referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be deemed to be an integral part of the ratification and shall have the force of ratification.
- 3. Any Member may at any time by a subsequent declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservations made in its original declaration in virtue of subparagraphs (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1 of this Article.
- 4. Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 16, communicate to the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect of such territories as it may specify.
Article 13
- 1. Where the subject-matter of this Convention is within the self-governing powers of any non-metropolitan territory, the Member responsible for the international relations of that territory may, in agreement with the government of the territory, communicate to the Director-General of the International Labour Office a declaration accepting on behalf of the territory the obligations of this Convention.
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2. A declaration accepting the obligations of this
Convention may be communicated to the Director-General of the
International Labour Office:
- (a) by two or more Members of the Organisation in respect of any territory which is under their joint authority; or
- (b) by any international authority responsible for the administration of any territory, in virtue of the Charter of the United Nations or otherwise, in respect of any such territory.
- 3. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Article shall indicate whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the territory concerned without modification or subject to modifications; when the declaration indicates that the provisions of the Convention will be applied subject to modifications it shall give details of the said modifications.
- 4. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may at any time by a subsequent declaration renounce in whole or in part the right to have recourse to any modification indicated in any former declaration.
- 5. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may, at any time at which this Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 16, communicate to the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect of the application of the Convention.
PART IV. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 14
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated
to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for
registration.
Article 15
- 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General.
- 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
- 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratifications has been registered.
Article 16
- 1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
- 2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 17
- 1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications, declarations and denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the Organisation.
- 2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the second ratification communicated to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 18
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall
communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for
registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United
Nations full particulars of all ratifications, declarations and acts of
denunciation registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the
preceding articles.
Article 19
At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of
the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a
report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the
desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of
its revision in whole or in part.
Article 20
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1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention
revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new
Convention otherwise provides:
- (a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;
- (b) as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.
- 2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.
Article 21
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative
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