Right to Governance and Right to Collective Bargaining: In the Background of the Specified Right to Strike as Fundamental Right and Positive Obligation of the Slovak Republic

Right To Collective Bargaining And Right To Strike As International Law Term

Freedom of association is closely interlinked with the right to collective governance (or also to bargaining) and collective actions. This fact was well known in the 20^th century and nor the present time proves otherwise. Existence of the right to collective bargaining is impossible without freedom of association. The main aim of this part is to point out at the existing legal regulation of the right to collective bargaining and right to strike as the fundamental right, in the context of application of freedom of association.

Various sources, institutions, and covenants concern the matter and have contributed to development of the right to collective governance. These normative legal systems, which contributed to definition of the right to collective governance, must be seen as the leaving and critical ones. Such are as follows:

• 1.

  Conventions of the International Labour Organisation.

• 2.

  The European Social Charter and European Convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms adopted by the Council of Europe.

• 3.

  The Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Communities, in consolidated wording of the Lisbon Treaty.

• 4.

  International covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural rights adopted by the United Nations Organisation in 1966.