Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Mali (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes the observations of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), received in September 2017, concerning allegations of discrimination against trade union leaders in the health sector and belonging to a trade union of the national police, including their dismissal. The Committee requests the Government to provide its comments in response to these allegations.

Article 4 of the Convention. Promotion of collective bargaining. Determination of the representativeness of trade union organizations. The Committee previously requested the Government to provide information on the organization of occupational elections, as provided for under the Labour Code. The Committee notes the report of the high-level mission which visited Mali in June 2015 at the request of the Government, to address the issue of the representativeness of trade union organizations. The mission met with all the national social partners and reported on the unanimity expressed about the use of occupational elections to measure trade union representativeness, and regarding the urgent need to organize them. The Committee notes the Government’s indication in its report that these occupational elections have not yet been held owing to a persistent disagreement between the trade union organizations as to the method of voting, but that it expects to resume the process in September 2017. The Committee welcomes the Government’s efforts to reach an agreement on the issue of trade union representativeness, and recalls the urgent need for a solution in order to give full effect to the provisions of the Labour Code relating to collective bargaining. The Committee therefore encourages the Government to take all the necessary measures to determine as soon as possible, after consultation of the organizations concerned, the procedures for occupational elections. It expects that the Government will soon be able to report on the holding of these elections and that the results will make it possible to determine clearly the representative organizations for the purpose of collective bargaining at all levels.

Right to collective bargaining in practice. The Committee requests the Government to provide full information on the number of agreements concluded in the country, the sectors concerned and the number of workers covered.