International Labor Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-431
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Labor Management ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Working And Living Conditions

Report of the Director-GeneralThe annual report of the Director-General (Morse) of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to the 38th session of the ILO Conference had a special theme, that of labor-management relations in thedeveloping industrial society.1 The state of labor-management relations was an important conditioning factor in attaining the broad goals laid down for the ILO in recent years, the Director-General stated; for example, productivity had been widely emphasized during the preceding year, and in the last analysis, the success of efforts to bring about higher productivity depended largely on improved cooperation within industry between management and labor. Labor-management relations were fundamental to the achievement of better manpower utilization in underdeveloped countries, and to the improvement of working and living conditions. In connection with the desire for greater economic security, faulty labor-management relations, creating an obsession with security and an aversion to change on the part of labor, could result in economic stagnation. Research and standard-setting and technical assistance were noted by the Director-General as important contributions being made by the ILO to industrial development, but he stated that these activities, while related to the problems of labor and management, were limited in that they were primarily concerned with setting the goals and establishing the legislative and administrative framework for social policy. It was worth considering, he thought, whether the ILO was not in need of a more positive, active and varied program for improved labormanagement relations.

scholarly journals International Labor Organization & its Contribution in Different Periods

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sanabil Almubidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Member States ◽  
International Labor

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency that sets international labor standards and promotes social protection and work opportunities for all. The ILO has 187 member states: 186 of the 193 UN member states plus the Cook Islands are members of the ILO. The tripartite structure is unique to the ILO where representatives from the government, employers and employees openly debate and create labor standards. The International Labor Office is the permanent secretariat of the International Labor Organization. It is the focal point for International Labor Organization's overall activities, which it prepares under the scrutiny of the Governing Body and under the leadership of the Director-General. The Office employs some 2,700 officials from over 150 nations at its headquarters in Geneva, and in around 40 field offices around the world. Among these officials, 900 work in technical cooperation programs and projects. In 1969, the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize for improving fraternity and peace among nations, pursuing decent work and justice for workers, and providing technical assistance to other developing nations.

International Labor Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
Two Bodies

The 117th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization met at Geneva from November 22 to 26, 1951 under the chairmanship of Paul Ramadier. Meetings of the Governing Body's committees on manpower and employment, finance and administration, relations with other international organizations, industrial committees, technical assistance, and allocations preceded the session, at which reports of these committees were considered. Also on the Governing Body's agenda was the report of the third session of the Asian Advisory Committee, which was held in Geneva from November 10 to 13. The Governing Body authorized the Director-General (Morse) to consult the Egyptian government on suggestions which might result in an investigation by ILO of Egyptian charges that United Kingdom military authorities were using arms to force Egyptians to work in the Suez Canal zone. Among its other decisions the Governing Body accepted an invitation from Brazil to hold ILO's Fifth American Regional Conference at Rio de Janeiro from April 17 to 30, 19S2, authorized the Director-General to undertake consultations with a view to the convening of a tripartite meeting of representatives from coal-producing countries on problems of the coal mining industry, and reaffirmed the need for ILO to continue to assist governments in solving immediate practical problems in the manpower field and, particularly, to provide them with technical assistance concerning the migration process. An invitation from Turkey to locate ILO's Near and Middle East Manpower Field Office at Istanbul was accepted, and an agreement by ILO and the Council of Europe providing for cooperation between the two bodies approved. It was decided that the next session of the Governing Body should be held at Geneva from March 11 to 14, 1952.

International Labor Organization

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Contract Of Employment

From November 24 to 28, 1952, the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization met in its 120th session in Geneva, under the chairmanship of Fernando Cisternas (Chile). The Governing Body decided that the thirty-seventh session of the International Labor Conference, to be held in Geneva, should open on June 4, 1954. After long discussion on proposals relating to the agenda of this session, the Governing Body decided to add the following to those items necessarily included: a) technical assistance, b) penal sanctions for breaches of contract of employment, c) migrant workers (underdeveloped countries), and d) vocational rehabilitation of the disabled. It was agreed that the next Asian regional conference should be held in Japan in September 1953 and that its agenda should include problems of wage policies and workers' housing in Asia and measures for protection of young workers in Asia. Regarding other meetings, the Governing Body instructed the tripartite subcommittee of the Joint Maritime Commission, which was to meet in 1953, to consider the need for a tripartite regional conference on hours of work and manning in the short-sea trades of northwest Europe and a resolution under which the United Nations Economic and Social Council would be invited to study the possibility of establishing machinery to regulate freight rates for shipping in this region; decided that a meeting of experts should be held in July 1953 to examine systems of payment by results in the construction industry and the techniques involved in their introduction and operation; fixed the agenda for the fourth session of the Permanent Agriculture Committee, to be convened in May 1953 in Geneva; and authorized the Director-General (Morse) to convene the eighth international conference of labor statisticians early in 1954 in Geneva, the conference to be preceded by a preliminary meeting of statistical experts in 1953 in order to define the scope of the conference's agenda.

International Labor Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-551
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Director General ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Selection Committee ◽  
International Labor

International Labor ConferenceThe 38th session of the Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILOs) was held in Geneva from June 1 to 23, 1955, under the presidency of Mr. García Odini (Chile). The Conference had before it the annual report of the Director-General (Morse), the main theme of which was labor-management relations in the developing industrial society. After the selection committee had submitted its proposals on the composition of committees, a spokesman for the employers' delegations of Albania, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stated that the majority of the employers' group had discriminated against them and violated their rights as delegates by not including them in the lists of prospective members of committees which the employers' group had furnished the selection committee. On the request of the spokesman, a vote was taken on the lists in question; the lists were adopted by votes ranging from 124 to 139 in favor, 26 to 31 opposed, and 25 to 37 abstentions. It was later proposed by the selection committee that the eight employers' delegates who had not been chosen to sit on committees be given seats as deputy members. However, Mr. Chajn (government delegate, Poland) moved that the selection committee's proposals be amended so as to give the delegates seats as full members. Mr. McGrath (employers' delegate, United States) stated “…that no member of the United States Employers' delegation would sit on any committee with a so-called Employers' delegate or adviser from an Iron Curtain country.

International Labor Organization

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-636
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
Occupational Health Services ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
International Labor

The Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO) held its 132d session in Geneva from June 1–2 and on July 29, 1956 under the chairmanship of Mr. A. H. Brown (Canada). After a discussion the Governing Body requested the Director-General to submit law and practice reports to the 133d session on the following subjects: 1) conditions of work of fishermen; 2) organization of occupational health services in places of employment; and 3) collaboration between public authorities and employers' and workers' organizations at industrial and national levels. In addition, the 133d session was asked to consider as a law and practice report a report on hours of work which had already been submitted along with the conclusions of a special committee and additional information which the Office had available. The Director-General was also requested to prepare a report on technical assistance. The conclusions of the nineteenth report of the Committee on Freedom of Association and certain proposals to facilitate committee procedure were adopted. A reservation to these proposals was made by the delegate from the Soviet Union who felt they would result in slowing further the Committee's already cumbersome working methods.

International Labor Organization

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-380
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
American States ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Regional Conference

The 113th session of the International Labor Organization Governing Body convened in Brussels on November 13, 1950. The agenda of the meeting included the following items for consideration by the Governing Body: 1) action to be taken on resolutions adopted by the International Labor Conference at its 33d session; 2) record of the conference on Rhine boatmen (July 1950); 3) arrangements for the fifth ILO regional conference of American states; 4) arrangements for the regional conference for the near and middle east; 5) first report of the Committee on the Working of the Governing Body and its Committees; 6) methods of associating all members of the organization more closely with the work of the Governing Body; 7) reports of the Finance Committee, the Allocations Committee, the Staff Questions Committee and the manpower committees; 8) reports of the Committee on Industrial Committees, the Technical Assistance Committee and International Organizations Committee; 9) composition of committees; and 10) report of the Director-General (Morse).

International Labor Organization

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-470 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Executive Secretary

The 140th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office was held in Geneva from November 18–21, 1958. It decided to place three new items on the agenda of the 44th (1960) session of the International Labor Conference, viz.: contribution of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to the raising of incomes and living conditions in rural communities in countries in process of development; reduction of hours of work; and workers' housing. In general, the Governing Body endorsed the suggestions before it regarding action to be taken on the resolutions adopted by the International Labor Conference at its 42d session, specifically by authorizing the Director-General to communicate to the governments of member states resolutions concerning publication of labor laws, industrial health and safety campaigns, management development, and the expansion of international trade. The resolution regarding the last topic was also to be sent to the UN and to the Executive Secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. A resolution dealing with labor-management relations was to be communicated to governments with the request that they bring it to the attention of employers' and workers' organizations, while a resolution concerning increased technical assistance for the integration of indigenous populations was to be sent to governments, to the UN, and to several relevant specialized agencies.

International Labor Organization

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
International Labor

The seventh session of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Asian Advisory Committee was held in Geneva on November 7 and 8, 1955, under the chairmanship of Mr. Maung Maung (government member, Burma). The session was attended by eight government members, four employers' members, and three workers' members, and by observers from the UN and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Committee agreed that increased credit facilities for agriculture in Asia would contribute to social and economic progress in the region and might also help to increase the volume of international trade; there was need for wide and repid international action to deal with the problem, and it was suggested that the provision of such credit might be assisted through expended activities on the part of existing international financial agencies. The Committee endorsed a resolution adopted at the fifth session of the Permanent Agricultural Committee concerning the scope and nature of ILO contributies to international programs of action for community organization and development, emphasizing that the ILO should take an active part in conferences, seminars and study groups as well as in technical assistance projects designed to promote community development, and should stress the community development approach within its own program of work. In considering ways of accelerating economic development in Asian countries, the Committee emphasized the need for increased capital investment by countries with capital surpluses, so as to ensure that an increase in the rate of capital formation did not encroach on the level of current consumption.

International Labor Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-577
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
General Note ◽  
Preliminary Consideration

The 125th session of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization was held in Geneva on May 28 and 29, 1954, with Mr. A. M. Malik (Pakistan) presiding. Preliminary consideration was given to the agenda for the 39th session of the ILO Conference (1956), which, it was decided, would be comprised of the Director-Generals report, financial and budgetary questions, and information on the application of Conventions and Recommendations, The Director-General was requested to submit to the November session of the Governing Body reports dealing with the national law and practices of member states in the fields of (1) weekly rest in commerce and offices, (2) living and working conditions of indigenous populations in independent countries, and (3) forced labor. He was also requested to provide a general note on the conditions of plantation workers and on discrimination in the field of employment and occupation.

International Labor Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-172
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Director General ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Conference Committee

Governing BodyThe Governing Body of the International Labor Organization held its 127th session in Rome from November 16 through 19, 1954, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. Ago (Italy). After deciding that the 39th session of the ILO Conference should open in Geneva on June 6, 1956, and noting that, in addition to the regular agenda items, the questions of vocational training in agriculture and welfare facilities for workers were likely to be carried over from the 38th session, the Governing Body considered several reports put before it by the Director-General (Morse) relating to possible further agenda items for the 39th session of the Conference. A study on discrimination in the field of employment and occupation, and a note setting forth certain questions relating to conditions of plantation workers were also discussed. The Governing Body decided to add to the agenda of the 39th session three new items of 1) forced labor, 2) weekly rest in commerce and offices, and 3) living and working conditions of indigenous populations in independent countries. The Governing Body's Committee on Standing Orders and the Application of Conventions and Recommendations was instructed to give further consideration to various points relating to the organization of the work of the ILO Conference, and particularly to arrangements for discussion of the Director-General's report and the work of the Conference committee on the application of conventions and recommendations.

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