INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION CONVENTION

of July 1, 1949 No. 98

Concerning use of the principles of the right to the organization and the conclusion of collective agreements

General Conference of the International Labour Organization,

Called in Geneva by Administrative Board of the International Labor Office and gathered there on June 8, 1949 for the thirty second session,

Having decided to accept different offers concerning use of the principles of the right to the organization and the conclusion of collective agreements, - the fourth item on the agenda of session,

Having decided to give to these offers the form of the international convention,

Accepts this July of the first day one thousand nine hundred forty ninth the following Convention which will hereinafter be referred to as as the Convention on the right to the organization and the conclusion of collective agreements, 1949.

Article 1

1. Workers shall use the corresponding protection against any discrimination acts directed to infringement of freedom of associations in the field of employment.

2. Such protection will be applied in particular to the acts expected that:

a) subordinate employment or leaving at work of the worker to condition that he did not join trade union or left labor union;

b) dismiss or by any other method to cause damage to the worker on the ground that it is member of labor union or takes part in trade-union activities out of working hours or, with the consent of the entrepreneur, in working hours.

Article 2

1. The organizations of workers and entrepreneurs shall use the corresponding protection against any acts of intervention from outside of each other or from their agents or members in creation and organization activity and management of them.

2. In particular, the acts aiming to promote organization of the organizations of workers under the domination of entrepreneurs or the organizations of entrepreneurs or to support the organizations of workers by financing or some other way with the purpose to deliver such organizations under control of entrepreneurs or the organizations of entrepreneurs, are considered as acts of intervention in sense of this Article.

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