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

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1968)

The Committee notes the observations of the Independent Trade Union Alliance Confederation of Workers (CTASI) received on 29 August 2018, as well as the joint observations of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions (CODESA), the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela (CTV), the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and the National Union of Workers of Venezuela (UNETE), received on 26 September 2018.

The Committee notes the decision adopted by the Governing Body at its 332nd Session (March 2018) to establish a Commission of Inquiry in relation to the complaint submitted in 2016 under article 26 of the ILO Constitution and alleging non-observance by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144). Noting the existence of significant links between the issues that the Committee has been examining under Convention No. 98 and the application of Convention No. 87 by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Committee has decided to suspend its examination of the application of Convention No. 98 until the Commission of Inquiry has completed its mission.