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The right to autonomy in union organisation, for furthering and defending workers' interests by collective bargaining and collective action. 154 2. Unions: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention: 1949 C098: Protection against discrimination for joining a trade union, promotion of voluntary collective agreements, taking ...
The Preamble of Convention 98 notes its adoption on 1 July 1949. After this the Convention covers, first, the rights of union members to organise independently, without interference by employers in article 1 to 3. Second, articles 4 to 6 require the positive creation of rights to collective bargaining, and that each member state's law promotes it.
There are currently 55 trade unions with membership of Congress, representing about 600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland. [1] Trade union members represent 35.1% of the Republic's workforce. [2] This is a significant decline since the 55.3% recorded in 1980 and the 38.5% reported in 2003. [3]
International labour law is the body of rules spanning public and private international law which concern the rights and duties of employees, employers, trade unions and governments in regulating Work (human activity) and the workplace.
The CIU consisted entirely of Irish-based unions, and retained 77,500 workers, including the members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. The aim of the CIU was to create a trade union movement in Ireland which was Irish-based and nationalistic in outlook, in contrast to the more internationalist and socialist ITUC which had ...
This comprised eighteen unions based in Ireland, and accounted for about half the ITUC membership. [4] The Advisory Council cut ties with the ITUC in 1945 and formed the Congress of Irish Unions. [4] After long negotiations, the two organisations reunited in 1959 to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. [5]
Finally, in 1990, the ITGWU merged with the Workers' Union of Ireland to form SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union). [ 5 ] The ITGWU should not be confused with the British-based Transport and General Workers Union , which organised in Ireland under the name Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU) and is ...
The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (c. 52) (TULRA) was a UK Act of Parliament (now repealed) on industrial relations.. The Act contains rules on the functioning and legal status of trade unions, the presumption that a collective agreement is not binding, and immunity of unions who take strike action in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute.