Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Burkina Faso (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes that section 351 of the Labour Code provides that a strike is a concerted and collective cessation of work with a view to endorsing professional demands already agreed upon and to which the employer refuses to give satisfaction, and that a strike is illegal when the cessation of work does not correspond to any professional demands.

In this respect, the Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report if the organization responsible for defending workers’ socio-economic and occupational interests is 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, in particular as regards employment, social protection and standards of living.