With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to bargain collectively, the Contracting Parties undertake:
- 1.to promote joint consultation between workers and employers;
- 2.to promote, where necessary and appropriate, machinery for voluntary negotiations between employers or employers' organisations and workers' organisations, with a view to the regulation of terms and conditions of employment by means of collective agreements;
- 3.to promote the establishment and use of appropriate machinery for conciliation and voluntary arbitration for the settlement of labour disputes;and recognise:
- 4.the right of workers and employers to collective action in cases of conflicts of interest, including the right to strike, subject to obligations that might arise out of collective agreements previously entered into.
