Compilation of decisions of the Committee on Freedom of Association

Right of workers and employers to establish and join organizations of their own choosing5

Undue intervention of the authorities with a view to eliminating trade unions

1. In a case where the Government stated that the steps it had taken had no anti-union objective, but the authorities seemed to have gone beyond the mere exercise of freedom of speech by explicitly urging members to resign from the union and by advocating a new trade union system, the Committee emphasized the importance that the authorities statements to the media should not seek to influence the right of workers to join organizations of their own choosing.