Trade Union stituation in the United States

By:

International Labour Office

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Geneva; International Labour Office; 1960Description: 148 pSubject(s):

Economics

DDC classification:

331.880973 TRA

Summary: From the middle of March until the beginning of June 1959 a Mission from the International Labour Office was in the United States to carry out a factual survey relating to freedom of association. This on-the-spot survey was undertaken at the invitation of the United States Government as part of a new effort by the I.L.O. to ascertain the facts relating to this subject in a continuing manner and on a world-wide basis. Freedom of association, as defined in the I.L.O. Freedom of Asso ciation and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), implies the right of workers and employers to form and join organisations of their own choosing and the right of those organisations to function in freedom. This freedom is of fundamental importance in the world of today, since both the industrialised and the economically underdeveloped countries depend industrial progress for main taining and raising their standards of living; it is recognised by the laws of almost every country, but serious doubts arise as to its appli cation in practice. In this report the emphasis has been placed on the right of the workers to form trade unions and the right of the unions to exist and to function. "Recognition of the principle of freedom of association" is one of the objectives cited in the Preamble of the International Labour Organisation's Constitution. As early as 1921 the International Labour Conference adopted the Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention. In 1927 an attempt was made to secure the adoption of a Convention concerning freedom of association for workers and employers, in application of the above mentioned principle, but the matter was dropped because of a failure to reach agreement. In April 1947 the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations requested the I.L.O. to place the question of trade union rights on the agenda of its next Conference. At the same time the Council transmitted to the I.L.O. the memoranda on this subject which had been submitted to it by the World Federation of Trade Unions and the American Federation of Labor. This matter was accordingly con sidered by the International Labour Conference in June 1947,

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From the middle of March until the beginning of June 1959 a Mission from the International Labour Office was in the United States to carry out a factual survey relating to freedom of association. This on-the-spot survey was undertaken at the invitation of the United States Government as part of a new effort by the I.L.O. to ascertain the facts relating to this subject in a continuing manner and on a world-wide basis.

Freedom of association, as defined in the I.L.O. Freedom of Asso ciation and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), implies the right of workers and employers to form and join organisations of their own choosing and the right of those organisations to function in freedom. This freedom is of fundamental importance in the world of today, since both the industrialised and the economically underdeveloped countries depend industrial progress for main taining and raising their standards of living; it is recognised by the laws of almost every country, but serious doubts arise as to its appli cation in practice. In this report the emphasis has been placed on the right of the workers to form trade unions and the right of the unions to exist and to function.

"Recognition of the principle of freedom of association" is one of the objectives cited in the Preamble of the International Labour Organisation's Constitution.

As early as 1921 the International Labour Conference adopted the Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention. In 1927 an attempt was made to secure the adoption of a Convention concerning freedom of association for workers and employers, in application of the above mentioned principle, but the matter was dropped because of a failure to reach agreement.

In April 1947 the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations requested the I.L.O. to place the question of trade union rights on the agenda of its next Conference. At the same time the Council transmitted to the I.L.O. the memoranda on this subject which had been submitted to it by the World Federation of Trade Unions and the American Federation of Labor. This matter was accordingly con sidered by the International Labour Conference in June 1947,

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