International: the ITUC report about the respect of the ILO’s fundamental standards in EU member states

In the context of the revision of the EU's commercial policies by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) general council, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) published a report entitled "the fundamental working standards internationally recognized in the European Union", in which it evaluated the application by EU member states of ILO's conventions. (070185)
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Freedom or association and the right to collective bargaining. If all member States ratified the Conventions n° 87 on trade-union freedom and the protection of the rights to unionization for and n° 98 on the rights to organization and collective bargaining and provide for a legislation supposedly in accordance with the commitments taken, a certain number of States are accused of having a legislation that was too limited on certain aspects. This is the case for Bulgaria, which forbids collective

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