At its recent Conference the International Labour Organisation (ILO) acknowledged trade union accusations of attacks on public sector workers’ pay and conditions as well as government action to undermine collective bargaining in both Greece and Romania. In the case of Romania, the government there has been asked to work with an ILO technical team to review the recent changes to the Labour Code and collective bargaining legislation to ensure they comply with ILO convention 98, on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining. Details of the discussions are in the ILO report PR No.18 / Part 2 – Report of the Committee on the Application of Standards: Observations and information concerning particular countries, pages 72-75 (Romania).
English: http://www.ilo.org/ilc/ILCSessions/100thSession/reports/provisional-records ... ;
http://www.epsu.org/cob/426
This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.