COMPLAINT (article 26) - 2004 - VENEZUELA - C087, C098

Mr. Daniel Funes de Rioja, Employers' delegate (Argentina), Mr. Bryan Noakes, Employers' delegate (Australia), Mr. Peter Tomek, Employers' delegate (Austria), Mr. Dagoberto Lima-Godoy, Employers' delegate (Brazil), Mr. Andrew Finlay, Employers' delegate (Canada), Mr. Costas Kapartis, Employers' delegate (Cyprus), Mr. Bernard Boisson, Employers' delegate (France), Ms. Antje Gerstein, Employers' delegate (Germany), Mr. I. P. Anand, Employers' delegate (India), Ms. Lucia Sasso-Mazzufferi, Employers' delegate (Italy), Mr. Herbert Lewis, Employers' delegate (Jamaica), Mr. Toshio Suzuki, Employers' delegate (Japan), Mr. Jorge de Regil, Employers' delegate (Mexico), Mr. Vidar Lindefjeld, Employers' delegate (Norway), Mr. Abdullah Dahlan, Employers' delegate (Saudi Arabia), Mr. Bokkie Botha, Employers' delegate (South Africa), Mr. Javier Ferrer Dufol, Employers' delegate (Spain), Ms. Göran Trogen, Employers' delegate (Sweden), Mr. Michel Barde, Employers' delegate (Switzerland), Mr. Ali M'Kaissi, Employers' delegate (Tunisia), Mr. Mel Lambert, Employers' delegate (United Kingdom), Mr. Edward Potter, Employers' delegate (United States), Mr. Bingen de Arbeloa, Employers' delegate (Venezuela)

Closed

Complaint concerning non-observance by Venezuela of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), made by various delegates at the 92nd Session (2004) of the Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

Decision

1. The Governing Body decided: (a) that the complaint presented originally in 2004 would not be referred to a Commission of Inquiry; (b) to request the Director-General to send a high-level tripartite mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to address all the issues before the Governing Body related to Case No. 2254 as well as technical cooperation matters, and to provide a full report to the Governing Body at its 312th Session (November 2011); (c) that, as a result of this decision, the procedure filed under article 26 of the ILO Constitution, in June 2004, was closed.
2. Report No. 336, March 2005, paras. 915-918
3. Report No. 338, Nov. 2005, paras. 1306-1312 (pages 1091-1138)