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- 47. This case has already been examined by the Committee at its session in February 1969, at which an interim report was presented containing a detailed analysis of the allegations formulated, together with observations by the Government relating to these allegations. The recommendations submitted to the Governing Body by the Committee after consideration of this case at its session in February 1969 are contained in paragraph 228 of its 110th Report, which reads as follows:
- Accordingly, with regard to the case as a whole, the Committee recommends the Governing Body:
- (a) to take note of the fact that the mobilisation of employees of the National Fuel, Alcohol and Portland Cement Administration, the State Sanitation Service and the Telecommunications Administration has been terminated;
- (b) to take note of the Government's statement that the individuals arrested under the prompt measures of security were immediately released, that the occupation of various trade union premises was purely temporary and that the freedom of trade union organisations to conduct their own affairs is recognised;
- (c) to request the Government to be good enough to inform it more specifically of the present position of the union leaders Ramón Freire Pizzano and Otilio Barragán;
- (d) to draw the Government's attention to the principle set forth in paragraph 219 above concerning the mobilisation of workers and to request the Government to inform it of the present position in this respect of the employees of the State Telephone Services and the state-owned banks;
- (e) to draw the Government's attention similarly to the provision of safeguards for civil servants and employees of essential services who are deprived of the right to strike and the development of voluntary bargaining procedures, and to request it to be good enough to supply details of any developments which may have occurred in this respect;
- (f) to take note of the present interim report, it being understood that the Committee will present a further report to the Governing Body once it has received the additional information requested from the Government in subparagraphs (c), (d) and (e) above.
- 48. A communication was received from the Government dated 8 April 1969 following the request for additional information formulated in the above-quoted paragraph.
- 49. The Government, in its reply, indicates that Mr. Freire Pizzano, who was arrested under the prompt measures of security on 6 June 1968, was released on 21 July of the same year. As regards Mr. Barragán, arrested in the same circumstances on 9 July 1968, he was released on 8 August.
- 50. The measures of security applied at that time, says the Government, were cancelled by virtue of a decree, dated 15 March 1969, issued by the Executive Power, and at present mobilisation measures do not apply to civil servants.
- 51. The Government concludes that it applies and will continue to apply the principles laid down in paragraph 224 of the 110th Report relating to safeguards to be presented to workers deprived of the right to strike, and in support of this statement it submits the text of an Act dated 16 December 1968 relating to conciliation procedures applicable to the given categories of workers.
The Committee's recommendations
The Committee's recommendations
- 52. In view of the above, having noted in the information supplied by the Government, on the one hand, that the union leaders, Mr. Freire Pizzano and Mr. Barragán have been released and, on the other, that all measures for the mobilisation of civil servants have been cancelled, the Committee recommends that the Governing Body decide that this case does not call for further examination.
