Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Cuba (Ratification: 1952)

Application of the Convention in practice. In its previous comment, the Committee requested the Government to provide examples of collective agreements concluded in the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDEM), as well as statistical information on the number of collective agreements signed in the country. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that: (i) in the ZEDEM, there are 13 collective agreements in force, covering 5,544 workers, including an agreement concluded by the National Union of Construction Workers with a Mariel architecture and engineering company and another agreement signed by the Provincial Union of Transport Workers with a freight transport company; and (ii) in 2018, the national unions updated 231 national agreements and 7,492 establishment labour agreements, covering more than 2.8 million workers in all economic sectors. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing statistical information on the number of collective agreements concluded in the country, indicating the activity sectors and the number of workers covered.