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Trade unions in Benin

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Although Benin has ratified a number of the ILO "core conventions", there are notable deficiencies in the application of labour practices as espoused by the labour movement. In particular a 2004 report by ITCU (previously ICFTU) draws attention to the lack of
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era from 1972 to 1990, the trade union movement was organized in line with the professed
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operate in relative freedom, with approximately 75% of the formal sector being
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ICFTU REPORT FOR THE WTO GENERAL COUNCIL REVIEW OF THE TRADE POLICIES OF BENIN
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Benin: Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights (2006) ITUC
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National Union of the Unions of the Workers of Benin
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CSA
CGTB
UNSTB
Ministry of Labour
Benin Labour Code
Global Rights Index
International Labour Organization
Benin
Freedom of Association
Right to Organise
unionized
International Labour Organization
International Trade Union Confederation
Labour Code
Freedom of Association
Right to Organize
Communist
Marxist
Leninist
People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
national trade union centers
National Union of the Unions of the Workers of Benin
Autonomous Trade Unions Centre
General Confederation of the Workers of Benin
women's equality
child labour
forced labour
icon
Organized labour portal
ICTUR

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