The ICJ Upholds a Right to Strike Under Convention No. 87 in a Landmark Opinion ✦ OnLabor
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The ICJ’s decision and the future of the right to strike
Yury Varlamov On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice — the top judicial organ of the United Nations — delivered an Advisory Opinion on whether ILO Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association protects the right to strike. The Court’s answer was unambiguous: it does. This development was preceded by a long-running dispute within the ILO between the Workers’ and Employers’ groups. Since the 1990s, the two sides had disagreed over how th…
The OGBL-LCGB Union of Trade Unions calls the advisory opinion on the right to strike rendered last week by the International Court of Justice a "historic victory". On 21 May last, the highest court of the United Nations ruled on the right to strike, stating that it is protected by a treaty of the International Labour Organization ...
The UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that the right to strike is protected by the freedom of association in ILO Convention No. 87, which is one of the core conventions of the UN's specialized agency for labor.
The ICJ Upholds a Right to Strike Under Convention No. 87 in a Landmark Opinion ✦ OnLabor
Last week the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered, by ten votes to four, the advisory opinion that workers’ organizations have awaited for fourteen years. The right to strike of workers and their organizations is protected under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. […]
ICJ ruling on right to strike boosts workers’ struggle
LAGUNA – Labor groups in the Philippines welcomed the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirming that the right to strike is protected under International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 87. They considered it a significant victory for workers facing intensifying attacks on union organizing and labor rights. For labor leaders, the ruling comes at a time when unionists continue to face red-tagging, hara…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an historic advisory opinion on 21 May: by 10 votes to 4, it confirmed that the right to strike is protected by ILO Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association. The Minister of Labour, Reza Uteem, informed the Chamber, not without recalling that Mauritius had actively participated in the consultative proceedings before the ICJ, alongside 17 other Member States. In his pleading, Uteem had defended a…
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