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

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

The Committee notes the observations made by the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) in a communication received on 1 September 2015, which are of a general nature.

In its previous comments, further to the observations of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) relating to restrictions on the right to strike in the public sector on the recurrently cited grounds of ensuring public safety, the Committee requested the Government to provide information on the number of strikes called in the public sector, the sectors concerned and the number of strikes prohibited on the grounds of a possible disruption of public order. In the absence of a reply, the Committee reiterates its request and trusts that the Government will take, without delay, all the necessary measures to provide the information requested.

Moreover, further to the observations previously received from Education International (EI), which denounced the adoption of various regulations making the exercise of union activities in the education sector increasingly difficult, the Committee requested the Government to specify the measures taken in the education sector to ensure that trade unions have access to educational establishments so that they can perform their representation functions and defend their members’ interests. In the absence of a reply, the Committee reiterates its request and trusts that the Government will take, without delay, all the necessary measures to provide the information requested.

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