Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Lithuania (Ratification: 1994)

The Committee notes section 244(1) of the Labour Code (2017) according to which, a strike is a stoppage of work by employees organized by a trade union or trade union organization in an effort to resolve a collective labour dispute on interests or ensure compliance with the decision reached in resolving such a dispute. The Committee considers that trade unions and employers’ organizations responsible for defending socio-economic and occupational interests should be able to use, respectively, strike action or protest action to support their position in the search for solutions to problems posed by major social and economic policy trends which have a direct impact on their members (see the 2012 General Survey on the fundamental Conventions, paragraph 124). Recalling that organizations responsible for defending workers socio-economic and occupational interests should be able to use strike action to support their position in the search for solutions to problems posed by major social and economic policy trends which have a direct impact on their members and on workers in general, the Committee requests the Government to indicate whether under the legislation in force trade unions can have recourse to protest strikes against the Government’s economic and social policies.