The Statutory Recognition Procedure 1999: No Bias in Favour of Recognition?

R. Dukes
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The statutory recognition procedure contained in Schedule A1 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 came into force in June 2000 and was amended in 2004. In comparison to earlier legislation dealing with recognition, the new procedure was not designed to encourage the spread of collective bargaining. It was shaped, instead, by the Blair Government's wish to take an even-handed approach to the matter of trade union recognition, upholding the freedom of businesses to choose their own methods of communicating with workers, and intervening only where a majority of workers wished a union to be recognised. The result is a statutory recognition procedure which is curiously unbiased in favour of union recognition. According to a recent statement from the ILO's Committee of Experts, the procedure contravenes the ‘Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining’ as protected in Convention 98. In the Committee's opinion, the principle that only unions with the support of a majority of the relevant workers should be recognised is at odds with Convention 98. To bring the procedure into conformity with ILO standards would thus require a rethink of the central premise upon which it is constructed.
1999年法定承认程序:不偏袒承认?
《1992年工会和劳资关系(综合)法》附表A1所载的法定承认程序于2000年6月生效,并于2004年进行了修订。与先前关于承认的立法相比,新程序的目的不是鼓励集体谈判的推广。相反,布莱尔政府希望在工会承认问题上采取公平的态度,支持企业选择自己与工人沟通的方式的自由,只在大多数工人希望工会得到承认的情况下进行干预,从而形成了这一政策。其结果是,法定承认程序对工会的承认出奇地不偏不倚。根据国际劳工组织专家委员会最近的一份声明,该程序违反了第98号公约所保护的“组织和集体谈判权”。委员会认为,只有得到大多数有关工人支持的工会才应得到承认的原则与《第98号公约》不符。因此,要使这一程序符合劳工组织的标准,就需要重新考虑建立这一程序的中心前提。
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