Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981 (No. 154) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1996)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the comments on the application of the Convention made by the Trade Union of Workers of Guatemala (UNSITRAGUA).

The Committee notes that, according to UNSITRAGUA, the general rule in the public sector has been to refuse to engage in collective bargaining or to use delaying tactics or to fail to implement the budget estimates which are necessary for carrying out negotiations; another practice consists of forming bargaining committees ad referendum which refer the results of negotiations to the higher authority, which simply fails to approve what has been negotiated, thereby making it necessary for negotiations to begin again. The Committee requests the Government to send its observations on these comments.