Focus on collective bargaining || Lectures

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LecturesSource: International Union Rights, Vol. 17, No. 4, Focus on collective bargaining (2010), p. 25Published by: International Centre for Trade Union RightsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41937565 .

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ICTUR IN ACTION □ PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES, AUSTRALIAN COMMITTEE

Advising on complaints

procedures

The international transport workers' union ITF has commissioned ICTUR to provide advice on the strategy, content and prospects of success for two cases to be brought under the quasi-legal international complaints procedures of the ILO and the OECD.

■ The first case will be submitted to the ILO's Committee on Freedom of Association and concerns a failure to respect collective bargaining rights in a case where the employer has failed to honour the terms of a collective agreement.

■ The second will be submitted to the relevant National Contact Point which monitors

implementation of and compliance with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and concerns the dismissal of workers in apparent retaliation for trade union activities.

In both cases ICTUR prepared detailed advice for the ITF. Drawing on ICTUR's technical expertise has allowed the ITF to obtain key insights into how their specific complaints will fit with the different complaints systems, and to understand the best strategies for taking forward the complaints and hopefully achieving a successful outcome. ICTUR is now helping the ITF to draw up and finalise the texts of the complaints, which are expected to be submitted by the ITF over coming weeks.

Lectures

In November Daniel Blackburn lectured to students on two courses on the theme of international labour law and the international trade union movement

■ In the first of these lectures, Blackburn gave a presentation to students on the MA in International Labour & Trade Union Studies at Ruskin College, Oxford. In his presentation he outlined the origins and structure of the international labour law instruments and machinery of the UN and ILO. Blackburn also spoke about how the ILO procedures are used

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in practice, and answered students' questions on specific cases.

■ In the second lecture, Blackburn spoke with Diploma students at CONEL college in London, again on the subject of the ILO but contrasting the development, enforcement mechanisms, and recent case histories of the ILO with those of the EU and the Council of Europe, paying particular attention to the Demir case from the European Court of Human Rights and to the Viking and Laval cases from the European Court of Justice.

Australian

Committee

The Australian Committee of ICTUR is currently undergoing a re-organisation process following the elevation and hence necessary departure of both Vice President Mordy Bromberg SC (now The Honourable Justice M. Bromberg) and President Sharan Burrow (now General Secretary of the ITUC in Brussels). Readers in Australia are encouraged to contact the ICTUR office in London ictur@ictur.org if they would like to be involved in the Committee or to help make sure we have all correct mailing and membership details.

ICTUR wishes to express its thanks to the CPSU for their generous support.

Japanese trade union centre Zenroren visited Australia in November and met with the current coordinators of ICTUR's Australian network, Aron Neilson and Anita Chan. The ICTUR Coordinators introduced the visitors to labour lawyers, academics, and trade unionists in Sydney. During the visit Zenroren and ICTUR discussed trade union rights in Asia and the prospects for supporting trade union rights projects in the region.

Japanese guests talk with ICTUR Australia Coordinators.

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