f. Workers and Trade Unions

According to data from Women Workers and Unions in Europe on the two major unions, women represented only 18 per cent of the members of the Unión General de Trabajadores and only 13 per cent of the members of Comisiones Obreras in 1992.

An example is the metal workers apos trade union for shop floor workers and the union representing supervisors in the metal industry.

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.

Only workers in a workers' state!

Revivals are against organised labour!

There would be work for everyone. And Work makes man noble .

Question of fundamental trade union and workers apos rights

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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.

Under this type of contract, workers may not be hired to replace workers who have stopped working because of labour union activities.

(a) Trade unionists

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.

The right of workers to found trade unions is comprehensive.

In 1993, according to the census conducted by the Ministry of Labour, there were 2,817 trade unions with 912,208 members, including 293,968 women (32.23 ).

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There were numerous trade unions for public sector employees, including the Trade Union of Employees of State Institutions, Self Governments and the Finance Sector, the Trade Union of Public Service Employees, the Nursing and Health Care Personnel Trade Union, the Health and Social Care Workers Trade Union and the Education and Science Workers Trade Union.

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Confederación Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (Bolivia)

The Committee urges the State party to amend the Trade Union Act to allow workers to form independent trade unions outside the structure of the All China Federation of Trade Unions.

The Committee acts in conjunction with the workers' movement and has recourse to the programmes and measures established by the STPS for the benefit of trade unions and individual workers.

Data on the number of unionized and non unionized migrant workers by sectors of the economy, with a view to ascertaining the level of acceptance of the demand for immigrant labour

Overtime for UN conference staff

At present there are the following trade unions within the system of the Ministry of the Interior Independent Trade Unions Federation of the Ministry of the Interior, National Police Trade Union, Trade Union of Non Commissioned Personnel of the Ministry of the Interior.

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Separate conceptualization of the term public employee as distinct from the term worker has always been without practical implications for the trade unionism of State workers, as the structuring of trade unions for State workers took place alongside that of other associations and their right to form trade unions has never been called into question.

According to the Trade Unions Act, persons have the right to form trade unions freely, without prior authorisation, and to join or not to join trade unions.

Mr. Vladimir N. Makarchuk, Trade Union of Minsk Underground Railway Workers

118. Individuals in Sri Lanka are entitled to form and be members of a trade union subject to the restrictions contained in the Act concerning trade unions of public officers.

This initiative will remove the sole administrators of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the oilworkers unions, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Associations (PENGASSEN), and should restore the unions freedom to reconstitute their national councils.

Union of Workers of CORENA Grand Circle of Free Workers (Government of the Federal District).

44. The Seminar welcomes the establishment of a Commission on Human Rights working group on migrant workers and human rights.

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.

Mr. Jean Pierre Page Officer in charge of international relations and union activities, Confédération générale des travailleurs (France)

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.

For workers' unions

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

He also interviewed garment workers outside their workplaces.

82. Joining a trade union requires only the free personal will of a worker or an employee, addressed to the respective body under the trade union apos s statute.

Concern has been raised that the Human Rights Court would duplicate and hinder the work performed by the Human Rights Chamber.

Special attention is paid to information and education of its membership and the organization of seminars on topics important for both workers and unions in the transition process.

If there are unions based on a trade and unions based on an enterprise or an industry in competition with one another, the first mentioned may conclude a collective agreement for its trade provided that the number of its members is greater than the number of workers in the same trade who are members of the union based on an enterprise or an industry.

The types of workers identified by countries as being at high risk of substance abuse are taxi drivers, long distance truck drivers, construction workers, tourist industry workers, including workers in restaurants and hotels, bar, nightclub and discotheque workers, foreign and migrant workers, miners, businessmen, housewives, refugees, sex workers, factory workers, fishmongers and dock workers.

The figures given about the other three trade unions represent the assessment of the Independent Trade Unions Confederation in Bulgaria.

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.