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The International Labour Organisation has confirmed that it will investigate the attacks on trade union and collective bargaining rights listed by public sector trade unions in a complaint submitted to the ILO at the end of October. The ILO will now write to the government asking for its response to the accusations. The unions also have time to submit more evidence to support their case.
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The International Labour Organisation has issued a report critical of the attacks on trade union and collective bargaining rights. In response to complaints bought by the ADEDY civil service confederation, GSEE private sector confederation and GENOP-DEI power sector trade union, it concluded: "While deeply aware that these measures were taken within a context qualified as grave and exceptional, provoked by a financial and economic crisis, the Committee found that there were a number of repeated and extensive interventions into free and voluntary collective bargaining and an important deficit
The ITUC and ETUC have repeated their call on the European Commission to open a formal investigation into trade union rights in Georgia under the procedure linked to the Commission’s trade preference scheme. The Confederations originally wrote to Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht in June but he responded in August to say that the Commission was using its contacts with the Georgian authorities to raise the issue of trade union rights and that an investigation was not appropriate. Since then the AFL-CIO confederation in the USA has convinced authorities there to examine the situation in Georgia
(8 June 2011) The [100th session of the ILO->http://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/100thSession/lang--en/index.htm] has started. The Conference discusses a range of issues including [social security->http://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/100thSession/media-centre/articles/WCMS_157003/lang--en/index.htm]. But most importantly is to consider violations of trade
