Wilfred Jenks, LL.D. (Cantab.), C. Keywords: Freedom of association | Trade unions | Mots clefs: Liberté d association | Syndicalisme | ABSTRACT The main subject of C. Wilfred Jenks' course is a particular experience in international action to protect the freedom of association of trade unions, which was undertaken by the International Labor Organization with considerable initial success in the years following 1947, notably through three conventions and fact-finding procedures. After a presentation of the origins of …

Valticos, Nicolas Keywords: Trade unions | International labour law | Mots clefs: Syndicalisme | Droit international ouvrier | ABSTRACT Of all the subjects related to international labor law and more generally to human rights, Nicolas Valticos points out that the trade union freedom is the subject of the most developed international protection mechanisms and in which the art of possible and the frontier of the impossible have been pushed as far as possible. Twenty-five years after the establishment of the main mec…

Yokota, Kisaburo Keywords: Trade unions | International labour law | Mots clefs: Syndicalisme | Droit international ouvrier | ABSTRACT Kisaburo Yokota, Honorary Professor at the University of Tokyo, points out that the freedom of association for trade union purposes is closely related to the freedom of association in general. First, the author presents the general features of freedom of association for trade union purposes. He then focuses on the right to organize as part of the fundamental principle of freedom of…