The Links between Collective Bargaining and Equality

Working Paper No. 10, International Labour Office, In Focus Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, (Geneva: ILO) 2003

68 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2013

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Adelle Blackett

McGill University - Faculty of Law

Colleen Sheppard

McGill University, Faculty of Law

Date Written: 2003

Abstract

Professors Blackett and Sheppard were commissioned by the ILO to write this Working Paper, as an input for preparing the ILO Director-General's Global Report to the 2003 session of the International Labour Conference. Their paper explores a complex and wide-ranging subject, i.e. the interface between collective bargaining and equality under current conditions of work. It argues that these two fundamental principles and rights are mutually reinforcing and can together promote workplace governance which reconciles economic with social goals. The paper draws upon a number of concrete examples of how the negotiation process has contributed to the promotion of equality of opportunities and treatment on grounds such as gender, disability, and religion, and shows how an equality agenda can enhance the scope, effectiveness and legitimacy of collective bargaining.

Keywords: equality, collective bargaining, workplace governance

Suggested Citation

Blackett, Adelle and Sheppard, Colleen, The Links between Collective Bargaining and Equality (2003). Working Paper No. 10, International Labour Office, In Focus Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, (Geneva: ILO) 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2298081

Adelle Blackett

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Colleen Sheppard (Contact Author)

McGill University, Faculty of Law ( email )

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Montreal H3A 1W9, Quebec H3A 1W9
Canada
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