Tripartite meeting

the ILO Office for South Asia is holding the tripartite meeting on "Negotiating for decent work in the age of globalization in South Asia and China," on October 26-27 in Ahungalla to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ILO Convention on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining, 1949 (No. 98), and in preparation of the High Level Tripartite Meeting on Collective Bargaining to be organized in the ILO in Geneva in November 2009,.

The meeting aims at having a better understanding of the current status and evolution of collective bargaining in South Asia and China and the way it has been affected by globalization; to understand the capacity that collective bargaining has to adapt and evolve in the context of a rapidly changing industrial relations environment, responding to pressures arising from globalization; to prepare the contributions for the ILO High-Level Tripartite meeting to be held in Geneva in November 2009; and to promote collective bargaining as a fundamental right and discuss in what ways it can be promoted and further used to contribute to the Decent Work Agenda of the ILO in South Asia and China.