The Staff Union in New York, as well as the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations, and the Federation of International Civil Servants' Associations, are also involved in this review.

The representative of CCISUA noted that the Staff Union of the International Labour Organization (ILO) had recently joined his Committee and it supported the views of the ILO Staff Union on this issue.

30. Ms. WATERS (President of the United Nations Staff Committee and the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations) said that the staff unions and associations of the United Nations Secretariat had noted that the Fifth Committee had debated the issue of gratis personnel with great concern, sincerity and a true desire to achieve a mediated solution of the problem.

The new Chairperson of the Global Staff Association (GSA) said that he was the first head of the GSA who was a national staff member and worked in the field.

It was assisted in its deliberations by a facilitator who was a Commissioner of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

CCISUA Coordinating Committee for Independent Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System

Presentation of the report of the Working Group by the Facilitator

United Nations Staff Mutual Insurance Society

The representative of FICSA informed the Commission that staff unions and associations were offering more training to staff in the upcoming activities linked with cost of living surveys at headquarters duty stations.

FAFICS is an observer to the Federation of International Civil Service Associations (FICSA) and the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA).

33. The staff unions and associations did not question the integrity of the individuals involved, nor the motives of the donor countries.

The report shall also be transmitted to the other governing organs through the executive heads, as well as to the Administrative Committee on Coordination, the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations, the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System, the staff representatives and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

The report shall also be transmitted to the other governing organs through the executive heads, as well as to the Administrative Committee on Coordination, the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations, the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System, the staff representatives and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Consultations had been vital to its work, and priority attention had been given to the involvement of staff associations and unions.

Extraordinary General Assembly of the United Nations Staff Savings and Credit Association

The representatives of FICSA and CCISUA commended the organizations for their efforts to provide family friendly working arrangements to their staff.

Ms. L. Losier (1st week) Coordinating Committee for Independent Staff Unions Ms. J. Datta (2nd week) and Associations of the United Nations System

At the request of the trade unions, federations and confederations of workers or of employers, provided that the following requirements are met

The representatives of FICSA and CCISUA supported the statement made by the Human Resources Network.

Address by the President of the UNICEF Global Staff Association

President of the Association of Officials and Employees of the Ecuadorian Foreign Service, 1980.

Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations system

The report shall also be transmitted to the other governing organs through the executive heads, as well as to the Administrative Committee on Coordination, the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations, the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System, the staff representatives and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board (see annex II, paras. 25 and 26)

29. On the basis of the above mentioned principles, the Secretary General consulted management and staff, through the Staff Management Coordination Committee, on the implementation of a step by step approach towards the development of a performance recognition programme.

The report shall also be transmitted to the other governing organs through the executive heads, as well as to the Administrative Committee on Coordination, the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations, the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations, the staff representatives and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.

42. The President of CCISUA thanked the Facilitator and members of ICSC for their cooperation.

CCISUA subscribed to the views expressed by CCAQ.

An employer employing workers who are members of a union is required to conclude a collective agreement with the union if requested to do so.

The terms of reference of the Working Group (see appendix I) were drawn up to reflect the views expressed by the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System (CCISUA), the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations (FICSA) and the representatives of the Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions (CCAQ).

International Tungsten Industry Association

AARP staff also serve on the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA USA) Council of Washington Representatives to the United Nations (CWRUN).

(b) Claims relating to rights of individual workers (articles 6 8 of the Covenant) the ILO procedures protect workers' human rights only through representations by an employees' association, an employers' association or a Government (a collective complaints mechanism)

(a) The request must be submitted to the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare by workers' unions, federations and confederations representing at least 51 per cent of unionized workers or by employers having in their employ at least the same percentage of workers

The Committee is concerned that the Labour Code in the State party limits, to a required minimum of 30 workers, the right to set up a trade union section or a staff association designed to create a labour union section.

13. The President of the Coordinating Committee for Independent Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System explained that the consultation on this issue had been a very difficult process.

(h) The role of staff associations vis à vis the formal system of justice

EUROCHAMBERS Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry VII

However, any association or combination of the following persons is deemed not to be a trade union and the Trade Unions Ordinance does not apply to them.

Editor, The Social Worker Journal of the Ghana Association of Social Workers

38. The Working Group on the Consultative Process and Working Arrangements of ICSC was established by the Commission at its spring 1997 session in response to a request by the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations (CCISUA), supported by ACC and the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations (FICSA), to review the functioning of the Commission.

New Orleans 1993, IBA Conference, participation in the work of Human Rights Committee

Free Trade Union Association in Bulgaria and General Headquarters of Branch Trade Unions (1994)

(a) Establishing the principle of pluralism in forming trade unions and employer apos associations, as a result of which many such trade unions and associations have been created

International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)

Femmes actives au foyer (Union nationale)