Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1967)

Application of the Convention to public servants and their organizations. The Committee notes that, in the context of Case No. 2926, the Committee on Freedom of Association “expects that enjoyment of all the rights upheld in Convention No. 87 will be fully secured for organizations of public servants” and draws the legislative aspects of the case to the attention of the Committee of Experts (see 370th Report, Case No. 2926, para. 385). The Committee recalls that in its previous comments it requested the Government: (i) in relation to the Organic Act on public enterprises, to indicate whether public servants who are freely appointed and removed and career public servants in public enterprises enjoy the rights laid down in the Convention; (ii) to provide information on the number of associations established for the promotion and defence of the interests of public servants, the sectors covered and the approximate number of members; and (iii) to indicate whether article 326(9) of the Constitution of the Republic prevents the establishment of more than one organization in each public body or state institution, or merely gives preferential rights for collective bargaining to the most representative organization (when an organization becomes the most representative, it may exercise such preferential rights in the place of the organization that no longer has the majority). Under these conditions, the Committee once again requests the Government to provide the requested information.