Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Algeria (Ratification: 1962)

Article 1 of the Convention. Adequate protection against acts of anti-union discrimination. The Committee notes the observations made by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a communication received on 1 September 2016 concerning acts of anti-union discrimination against trade union leaders, as well as dismissals of trade union members following protest action in enterprises in the urban transport, automobile, steel and mining sectors. The Committee also notes the observations made by the General and Autonomous Confederation of Workers in Algeria (CGATA) in communications received on 9 June 2015 and 27 June 2016, reporting cases of anti-union discrimination in the public sector (justice, postal services, public health, national water resources agency) and in several enterprises in the gas and cleaning industries. The Committee notes with regret that the Government has not responded to the allegations from the ITUC and the CGATA, previously submitted to the Committee, concerning anti-union discrimination, among other things, in enterprises in the maritime, finance and construction sectors and in certain public establishments (postal services and education). In light of the gravity of the allegations, some of which date back to 2014, the Committee urges the Government to be more cooperative in the future and to provide its comments on the observations of the ITUC and the CGATA, and in particular to indicate, in cases where anti-union discrimination is found, the corrective measures taken and the penalties applied on those responsible.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.