Decision on the 16th item on the agenda: Composition and agenda of standing bodies and meetings

Record of decisions | 08 July 2009

New appointment

The Governing Body, on the recommendation of its Officers, recommended that the Governing Body appoint Mr Vitit Muntarbhorn, Professor of Law at Chulagongkorn University, Bangkok, as a member of the Committee for a period of three years.

(Document GB.304/16, paragraph 1.)

Composition

The Governing Body decided that the Symposium should be attended by 30 trade union representatives, nominated after consultation with the Workers’ group of the Governing Body and coming from both industrialized and developing countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe), and the Arab States. Efforts would be made to ensure that at least 30 per cent of the participants selected are women, in compliance with the Workers’ group’s policy on gender equality.

(Document GB.304/16, paragraph 5.)

Agenda

The Governing Body, on the recommendation of its Officers, approved the following proposed agenda:

– to examine the recent trends and developments in collective bargaining and the protection of the right to organize;

– to discuss the relationship between collective bargaining and the social and economic objectives of Decent Work;

– to identify policies and strategies that would strengthen the capacity of trade unions to organize and bargain collectively;

– to identify ways and means of achieving the universal application of the right to organize and to bargain collectively.

(Document GB.304/16, paragraph 9.)

Invitation of international non-governmental organizations

The Director-General proposes to invite the following international non-governmental organizations to be represented at the Meeting as observers:

– Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI);

– Education International (EI);

– European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC);

– General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU);

– International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU);

– International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Union (ICEM);

– International Federation of Journalists (IFJ);

– International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF);

– International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF);

– International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF);

– International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Association (IUF);

– Public Services International (PSI);

– Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC);

– Union Network International (UNI);

– Union Syndicale des Travailleurs du Maghreb (USTMA).

(Document GB.304/16, paragraph 11.)

Invitation of intergovernmental organizations

The Governing Body noted that the Director-General intended to invite the following international intergovernmental organizations to be represented at the Meeting as observers:

– European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions;

– International Organization for Migration (IOM);

– The World Bank.

Invitation of international non-governmental organizations

The Governing Body, on the recommendation of its Officers, authorized the Director-General to invite the following international non-governmental organizations to be represented at the Meeting as observers:

– International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (CIETT);

– World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES).

(Document GB.304/16, paragraph 14.)