Amendment No. 19 | Doc. 14216 | 24 January 2017

Reinforcing social dialogue as an instrument for stability and decreasing social and economic inequalities

Signatories: Mr Mike WOOD, United Kingdom, EC ; Mr Nigel EVANS, United Kingdom, EC ; Ms Cheryl GILLAN, United Kingdom, EC ; Mr Ján MAROSZ, Slovak Republic, EC ; Mr Paul SCULLY, United Kingdom, EC ; Ms Kelly TOLHURST, United Kingdom, EC

Origin - 2017 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 5.6, insert the following paragraph:

"remind trade unions that "on the basis of the definition of workers organisation contained in Article 10 of Convention No. 87, the Committee on Freedom of Association considers that strikes of a purely political nature [...] do not fall within the scope of the principles of freedom of association", (International Labour Organisation, 1966d, §481). Therefore, the Assembly condemns all strikes of a purely political nature against legitimately and democratically elected governments."