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C87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948

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 31. 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

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.


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

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.

http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm

ILO Convention 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention,

ILO Convention 98
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-second Session on 8 June 1949, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning the application of the principles of the right to organise and to bargain collectively, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,

adopts this first day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949:

Article 1
1. (1) Workers shall enjoy adequate protection against acts of anti-union discrimination in respect of their employment.

1. (2) Such protection shall apply more particularly in respect of acts calculated to-

(a) make the employment of a worker subject to the condition that he shall not join a union or shall relinquish trade union membership;

(b) cause the dismissal of or otherwise prejudice a worker by reason of union membership or because of participation in union activities outside working hours or, with the consent of the employer, within working hours.

Article 2
2. (1) Workers' and employers' organisations shall enjoy adequate protection against any acts of interference by each other or each other's agents or members in their establishment, functioning or administration.

2. (2) In particular, acts which are designed to promote the establishment of workers' organisations under the domination of employers or employers' organisations, or to support workers' organisations by financial or other means, with the object of placing such organisations under the control of employers or employers' organisations, shall be deemed to constitute acts of interference within the meaning of this Article.

Article 3
3. Machinery appropriate to national conditions shall be established, where necessary, for the purpose of ensuring respect for the right to organise as defined in the preceding Articles.

Article 4
4. Measures appropriate to national conditions shall be taken, where necessary, to encourage and promote the full development and utilisation of machinery for voluntary negotiation between employers or employers' organisations and workers' organisations, with a view to the regulation of terms and conditions of employment by means of collective agreements.

Article 5
5. (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.

5. (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 6
6. This Convention does not deal with the position of public servants engaged in the administration of the State, nor shall it be construed as prejudicing their rights or status in any way.

Article 7
7. The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 8
8. (1) This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General.

8. (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.

8. (3) Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

Article 9
9. (1) Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall indicate --

(a) the territories in respect of which the Member concerned 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 pending further consideration of the position.

9. (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.

9. (3) Any Member may at any time by a subsequent declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservation made in its original declaration in virtue of subparagraph (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1 of this Article.

9. (4) Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions of Article 11, 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 10
10. (1) Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in accordance with paragraph 4 or 5 of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation 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.

10. (2) 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.

10. (3) 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 11, 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.

Article 11
11. (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.

11. (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 12
12. (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.

12. (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 13
13. 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 14
14. 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 15
15. (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 11 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.

15. (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 16
16. The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative.

Source: http://www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/cariblex/conventions_3.shtml

Convention 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise

ILO Convention 87

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948

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
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
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
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.

3. (2) The public authorities shall refrain from any interference which would restrict this right or impede the lawful exercise thereof.

Article 4
4. Workers' and employers' organisations shall not be liable to be dissolved or suspended by administrative authority.

Article 5
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
6. The provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 4 hereof apply to federations and confederations of workers' and employers' organisations.

Article 7
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
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.

8. (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
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.

9. (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
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
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
12. (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.
12. (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.

12. (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.

12. (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

13. (1) here 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.

13. (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.
13. (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.

13. (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.

13. (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
14. The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 15
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.

15. (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.

15. (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
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.

16. (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
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.

17. (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
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
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
20. (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.
20. (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
21. The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative.

Source: http://www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/cariblex/conventions_1.shtml

Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of voluntary negotiation between employers and trade unions aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs.[1]

The union may negotiate with a single employer (who is typically representing a company's shareholders) or may negotiate with a federation of businesses, depending on the country, to reach an industry wide agreement. A collective agreement functions as a labor contract between an employer and one or more unions. Collective bargaining consists of the process of negotiation between representatives of a union and employers (generally represented by management, in some countries[which?] by an employers' organization) in respect of the terms and conditions of employment of employees, such as wages, hours of work, working conditions and grievance-procedures, and about the rights and responsibilities of trade unions. The parties often refer to the result of the negotiation as a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or as a collective employment agreement (CEA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining

 

SERBISYO NG TUCP PARTY-LIST

TUCP WORKERS' COLLEGE-TUCP PARTY-LIST/TESDA

 

TUCP on its 35th Anniversary

TUCP on its 35th Anniversary

On Dec. 14, 2010: The representatives of Federations and Informal Sector Associations
planted fifty (50) trees at the Quezon City Wildlife and Parks,

Elliptical circle, Quezon City

The International Trade Union Confederation

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is the main international trade union organisation, representing the interests of working people worldwide. It has 301 affiliated member organisations in 151 countries and territories, with a total membership of 176 million workers. The ITUC was founded at its inaugural Congress in Vienna, Austria, on 1 -3 November 2006. It groups together the former affiliates of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL), along with trade union organisations which had no global affiliation. The ICFTU and the WCL dissolved themselves on 31 October 2006, to pave the way for the creation of the ITUC.

The ITUC’s primary mission is the promotion and defence of workers’ rights and interests, through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within the major global institutions. The Programme Document adopted at the ITUC founding Congress sets out the Confederation’s overall policy framework. Its main areas of activity include:

trade union and human rights
economy, society and the workplace
equality and non-discrimination
international solidarity.

The ITUC adheres to the principles of trade union democracy and independence, as set out in its Constitution. It is governed by four-yearly world congresses, a General Council and an Executive Bureau. The chief executive of the ITUC is its General Secretary Sharan Burrow, supported by Deputy General Secretary Jaap Wienen.

The ITUC regional organizations are the Asia-Pacific Regional Organization (ITUC-AP), the African Regional Organization (ITUC-AF) and the American Regional Organization (TUCA)

The ITUC also cooperates closely with the European Trade Union Confederation, including through the Pan-European Regional Council, which was created on March 2007.

The ITUC has close relations with the Global Union Federations and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), working together through the Global Unions Council.

The ITUC works closely with the International Labour Organisation. It maintains contacts with several other UN Specialised Agencies.

Source: http://www.ituc-csi.org/+-about-us-+.html

Joker is thriftiest senator, CoA says

By ROLLY T. CARANDANG
January 4, 2011, 6:57pm

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (CoA) released figures Tuesday showing opposition Senator Joker Arroyo as the thriftiest member of the Senate in 2009 and Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and then-Senator-now-President Benigno S. Aquino III spending the most on their offices.

Arroyo maintained his being the “Scrooge of Congress” among the 23 senators in 2009 in the disbursements of office expenditures, including their staff salaries and benefits, according to the CoA report.

Arroyo, for the 19th straight year, was the thriftiest senator who spent only about P2.264 million in salaries and benefits for his staff in 2009.

Arroyo’s expenditures were way below the P11 million cashed out by then Senate President Pro-Tempore Jinggoy Estrada and Aquino.

The CoA report listed the top five spenders on salaries and benefits of their staff as follows: Estrada, P11.868-million; Aquino, P11.310 million; Sen. Gregorio Honasan, P10.545; Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla, P10.270; and Sen. Antonio Trillanes,P9.698-million Arroyo’s frugality was known even when he was in the Lower House where he had no staff, except for a driver and a utility man.

Even when he was elected as Senator in 2001, he maintains a skeletal staff of three persons only up to this day.

The CoA report showed that the itemized list of expenses of the 23 senators for 2009 totaled to P433,382,584 or a median of P18,842,719.48 for each senator.

The COA report showed that Arroyo spent P14,611,455.95 or P4,231,264.53 below the median, the thriftiest senator while Estrada spent the most at P21,799,573.90 or P2,956,854.42.

Estrada spent P7,188,118.95 or about 50 percent more than Arroyo.

Estrada was followed in the highest spenders category by Senators Gregorio Honasan (P21,649,606.67), then Senator now President Aquino (P21,552,295.67) and recently released former Magdalo leader and Sen. Antonio Trillanes ( P21,136,792.45), Bong Revilla (P21,046,876.06) and Francis Pangilinan (P20,720,010.09).

In the so-called P19-million club were Senators Alan Cayetano (P19.337-M), now Rep Rodolfo Biazon (P19.407-M); and Pia Cayetano (P19.579-M).

In the “kuripot” category, Arroyo was followed by then Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr, who spent P15,178,602.28. Pimentel also placed second to Arroyo in the 2008 frugality derby.

Since Arroyo joined the government in 1986 after EDSA as the first executive secretary up to the present, the senator said he has never travelled abroad using government money.

Senator Arroyo had chaired the powerful Blue Ribbon Committee, the Public Services Committee and the Justice and Human Rights Committee in the 12th and 13th Congress.

But the Senator opted not to chair any committee in the 14th and the present 15th Congress.

Surprisingly, some senior senators noted how Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV spent his budget when he was detained at Camp Crame until a week ago. He spent P21.136-million, or a whopping P57,909.02 each day for various expenses in his office.

In 2008, he also spent P17.2-million or about P47,000 a day while in detention.

In the lower median category of P16-million and P17-million in expenses, the senators from the least spenders to the higher spenders are Edgardo Angara at P16,421,151.05, Loren Legarda (P17,276.427.28), Panfilo Lacson (P17,516,733.88) and Mar Roxas (P17,673,348,30).

Still in the median list of P18-million expenses are Jamby Madrigal (P18,261,678.82), Richard Gordon (P18,322,650.14), Manny Villar (P18,343,298.25), Lito Lapid (P18,395,961), Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (P18,409,189.82), Chiz Escudero (P 18,705,625), and Miriam Defensor Santiago (P18,759,403.69).

On the expenses of local travel of their staff, Sen Legarda topped the list spending about P4.5-million.

She was followed by Villar with P3.3 milion, Honasan P3.29-million, Pangilinan is P2.57-million and Sen Allan Peter Cayetano with P2.49-million.

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Wed, 01/05/2011 - 01:42 � bullish delights

Just wondering on how the good senator champion of good government spent this much. cna he show to us how wisely he spent that amount.Just curious!!!

DOLE conducts nationwide anti-child labor, anti-trafficking orientation

To help alleviate the plight of children engaged in hazardous and exploitative work, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) conducted a series of advocacy orientations on child labor based on Republic Acts (RA) 9231, or the law on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, and RA 9208, or the law on anti-trafficking in persons this month. The nationwide activity was part of the DOLE's month-long 77th anniversary celebration.

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that the advocacy was aimed at preventing companies from employing children and putting a stop to human trafficking.

"Child labor is a difficult program. Parents themselves usually are the ones putting their children to work. Child labor has been a predicament all over the country for many years. However, government has increased its efforts and consistently implemented laws for worker rights," said Baldoz.

She added that the government has intensified its campaign against child labor and trafficking through a series of advocacy orientation, social dialogue, film showing and counseling caravans in the different regions.

"This is part of the DOLE-wide advocacy to reduce the increasing number of child workers and cases of trafficking involving women and children," she explained.

"Children who work at a young age are forced to forego their education and many other youthful activities in order to contribute to the needs of the family. Because of their ignorance and vulnerability to abuse, these children fall easy prey to exploitative child labor and hazardous types of work," added Baldoz.

The DOLE Regional Offices which conducted advocacy orientations on RA 9231 and RA 9298 are the National Capital Region (NCR), Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Regions 2, 3, 4-A, 4-B, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11.

DOLE ROs have invited officials from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), Department of Foreign Affairs, and other government agencies as resource persons to the advocacy orientations. Participants included representatives from the academe, recruitment agencies, child laborers, and their parents, who were apprised on the salient features of RA 9231 and RA 9208.

Other topics that were discussed during the advocacy sessions include child pornography and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS).

DOLE leads the program implementation on the improvement of conditions of work of children, banning of child employment in hazardous occupation, and enforcement of law, standards and policies under the mandate of the department.

Source: http://www.dole.gov.ph/secondpage.php?id=1680

60,000 available jobs to kick-off 2011

Para sa mga naghahanap ng trabaho ngayong Bagong Taon, may good news ang Department of Labor and Employment. May 60,000 na trabahong inaalok ngayon na wala pang gaanong aplikante. Anu-ano ang mga ito? Alamin sa pagba-Bandila ni Apples Jalandoni. Bandila, Enero 3, 2010, Lunes.

TESDA to provide free trainings for 50,000 PUV drivers

At least 50,000 drivers of public utility vehicles will be given free trainings in a bid to ensure the safety of their future passengers and improve road safety, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) said it is willing to provide technical assistance for this.

In a statement, TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva said it made this commitment because of the string of vehicular accidents that occurred over the holidays, and as a response to a request of the Department of Transportation and Communications.

Villanueva explained that in Nov. 2010, Transportation Secretary Jose “Ping" de Jesus wrote him a letter asking if TESDA could certify more than 50,000 bus and truck drivers nationwide in the next two years.

"We gave our commitment to provide technical assistance for these drivers," he said. “We welcome the proposal considering this recent series of road accidents."

TESDA and the DOTC are set to meet this month to flesh out the training program, Villanueva said.

According to the DOTC, 85 percent of road accidents are "driver-related," indicating a lack of skills by drivers.

“Thus, it is important to assess their (drivers) capability on the road," Villanueva said.

The TESDA chief, however, said that private operators and traffic enforcers should also take part in the project.

"They should do their share of educating and training their drivers to guarantee that they can safely ferry their passengers and cargoes to their destination," he said.

If the proposal pushes through, drivers would have to undergo trainings at either TESDA schools or accredited private driving schools. Either way, they must still be assessed by TESDA, Villanueva said.

A three-way collision along STAR Tollway in Batangas on Sunday killed seven members of a family who were on their way to Manila.

Last week, a road accident in Sta. Rosa, Laguna killed six people in a jeepney, and the week before that, a bus collided with a car along Commonwealth Avenue, killing a retired Makati City Regional Trial Court judge and his wife who were on their way to midnight Mass. —Kimberly Jane Tan/DM/KBK, GMANews.TV