Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Poland (Ratification: 1957)

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Observation

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Article 3 of the Convention. Right of organizations to organize their activities in full freedom and to formulate their programmes. The Committee notes the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee on Freedom of Association in Case No. 3111 drawing the legislative aspects of the case to the attention of the Committee of Experts (see Report No. 378, June 2016, paragraphs 647–718). The Committee notes, in particular, sections 1 and 17 of the Collective Labour Disputes Act, according to which, a collective dispute between employees and an employer or employers may only relate to working conditions, wages, social benefits, union rights and freedoms of employees or other groups of persons who enjoy the right to organize, and that a strike is a collective labour stoppage by employees for the purpose of settling a dispute concerning the above-mentioned matters. The Committee considers that the occupational and economic interests which workers defend through the exercise of the right to strike do not only concern better working conditions or collective claims of an occupational nature, but also the seeking of solutions to economic and social policy questions and problems facing the undertaking which are of direct concern to the workers. The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures in order to ensure that workers’ organizations are able to express, if necessary, through protest actions, more broadly, their views as regards economic and social matters affecting their members’ interests.