Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 359, March 2011

Case No 2718 (Argentina) - Complaint date: 26-MAY-09 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 13. The Committee examined this case (in which it was alleged that the authorities of the Corrientes Municipal Loan Fund decided not to deduct union dues for trade union members, or to provide office accommodation for the conduct of trade union activities, or to allow workers to hold assemblies, while suspending a delegate of the Association of State Workers (ATE), Ms María Elena Villalba, for 30 days, and that the town council of Corrientes ruled in Resolution No. 2526 of 8 October 2008, to withdraw the check-off code for the deduction of trade union dues from union members’ wages) at its March 2010 meeting on which occasion it made the following recommendations [see 356th Report, para. 288]:
   • (a) The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of the outcome of the judicial proceedings under way initiated by the ATE against the town council of Corrientes, to which the Government refers.
   • (b) The Committee requests the Government to ensure that the Corrientes Municipal Loan Fund and the town council of Corrientes deduct and submit to the ATE the trade union dues of its members, in accordance with its certificate (MTSS Resolution No. 51/87) issued by the Ministry of Labour. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed in this respect.
2. 14. In a communication of 19 August 2010, the Government states that: (1) the judicial proceedings in question are ongoing before Labour Court No. 3 of the city of Corrientes; and (2) the Corrientes Municipal Loan Fund stated that the respective dues are being deducted from the wages of the members of the various trade unions and deposited within the first ten days following the payment of wages.
3. 15. The Committee takes note of this information and requests the Government to keep it informed of the outcome of the judicial proceedings regarding the case in question before Labour Court No. 3 of the city of Corrientes. Furthermore, the Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of any measures adopted to ensure that the town council of Corrientes deducts and submits to the ATE the trade union dues of its members, in accordance with its certificate (MTSS Resolution No. 51/87) issued by the Ministry of Labour.