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Fundamentalism and its impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 2016, para. 37
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- The free market fundamentalist ideology opposes the very existence of trade unions in general, with one author arguing that they are viewed as "monopolist agents manipulating the price of labour to the advantage of some (a minority) and to the disadvantage of others (the majority, including non-unionized workers and consumers)". The Special Rapporteur views anti-unionism as an inherently troubling aspect of free market fundamentalism, as the right to organize in the workplace is protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and through various conventions of the International Labour Organization.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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- Special Procedures' report
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- N.A.
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- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 23
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- Global supply chains are putting downward pressure on wages and working conditions, and distancing workers from their rights to freedom of association because workers fill permanent jobs but are denied permanent employee rights. These arrangements - found in both formal and informal work, including part-time, short-term or temporary contracts, on-call schedules, multilayered subcontracts or franchises, and bogus self-employment schemes - are designed to drive down costs. As a result of the widespread use of this practice, 1.5 billion people - 46 per cent of the world's total number of workers - are working in so called "precarious employment". In both Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, more than 70 per cent of workers are employed that way.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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