Sanctions imposed for attempting to establish organizations (Right of workers and employers freely to establish and join organizations of their own choosing)

301. Measures taken against workers because they attempt to constitute organizations or to reconstitute organizations of workers outside the official trade union organization would be incompatible with the principle that workers should have the right to establish and join organizations of their own choosing without previous authorization.

(See the Digest of 1985, para. 233.)

302. The necessary measures have to be taken so that trade unionists who have been dismissed for activities related to the establishment of a union are reinstated in their functions, if they so wish.

(See 281st Report, Case No. 1580, para. 158.)