Involvement of representatives of the company employees. The IUF has no mandate “to negotiate and subscribe to an agreement with a trans-national enterprise without first having involved, consulted and obtained the backing of a representative group of members from among the work force in the target company”. The document that should be adopted at the Congress specifies the content of the mandate granted to the IUF. This should exclude “all terms suggesting that the company has a free hand” with regard to the obligations of respecting the trade unionist right “or that these obligations are voluntary”. The agreement cannot “weaken or reduce the existing agreements or practices in working relationships regarding trade unionist rights” and should specify how the company intends to assist the employees in putting in practice the rights mentioned in the agreement. The text should forbid “any type of discrimination” regarding employees who demand respect of national or international rulings on the recognition of trade unionist rights. The agreement should also specify the company “considers the fact of belonging to a trade union as positive” and indicate in which way it intends to inform its employees in this sense. The company should specify what it intends to implement so as to apply the agreement and the penalties it will apply should the agreement not be respected.
ishment of trade unions “because all too often they put too much emphasis on the recognition of a series of rights. They do not respond in a sufficiently specific way to the implementation of these rights and to the practical conditions that should exist to enable the workers to join trade unions and to encourage the growth of the work force in numerous countries and on the level of trans-national employers whose work forces are falling”.
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