The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in Trinidad and Tobago, coinciding with the Trade Policy Review of the country at the WTO. The report finds excessive restrictions to the right to organise, to collectively bargain and to strike; for instance, in order for a union to obtain bargaining rights, the union must satisfy an excessive requirement that it represent 51 per cent of the workers. Domestic workers and some other categories are not covered by the Industrial Relations Act and so cannot join trade unions or benefit from their protection.
