New Delhi (PTI): To prevent civil servants from joining union activities, the government has for the last six decades refrained from ratifying two international labour conventions that grant freedom of association for collective bargaining to employees and their right to organise.
India joins a handful of other nations, including China, which discourages workers from associating under the banner of any non-Communist trade union, and also United States which denies its workers the right to strike. The International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Convention number 87 -- Right to freedom of association for collective bargaining and 98 -- Right to organise have so far been ratified by 149 and 159 nations respectively.
Labour and Employment Minister Oscar Fernandes stated in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha earlier this week that at present the Government is not considering to ratify both the ILO conventions.
In face of persuasions and queries from ILO, India had responded to the international labour rights body by saying that civil servants have no legal right to strike, ILO officials said.
India had often cited a decision on the matter by the Supreme Court of India, which denied the right to strike to civil servants. "According to Convention 98, `state administrators', along with police and military personnel can be exempted from being provided the right to strike," ILO's specialist on labour standards, C Kompire told PTI.
Source : PTI
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