We need more States to ratify and effectively implement ILO Convention 188 on Work in Fishing and to also operationalize the recently adopted ILO Recruitment Guidelines.

5/5

Poor recruitment practices also feature heavily in the piece. Last month the @ilo adopted Guidelines for Fair Labour Market Services for Migrant Fishers. Imperative that retailers, brands & seafood buyers embed the Guidelines in their responsible sourcing frameworks.

4/5

All supply chain actors have a role to play, including food retailers. In order to build truly effective human rights due diligence policies and practices in this space, supply chain actors should meaningfully engage sectoral trade unions, including the ITF.

3/5

Certification/labelling is not the solution. Genuine freedom of association and collective bargaining are. As my colleague Chris Williams says: if there is not any collective bargaining...there is no guarantee that workers rights are not being infringed”.

2/5

The oral statements can be accessed here: www.icj-cij.org/case/191/ora...

The written submissions (including the ITUC's) have now be made public and can be found here: www.icj-cij.org/case/191/wri...

10/10

A robust right to strike is fundamental to address today's challenges, providing an effective check to the extreme imbalances of power between labour and capital which have led to the multiple crises we are in now.

We will win.

9/10

It was an honour to be part of the ITUC legal team in these proceedings and to represent millions of transport workers affiliated to the @itfglobalunion.bsky.social.

And what a team we had. Such a joy to work with colleagues who are close friends and comrades.

We are confident that the Court will confirm the longstanding existence of the right to strike under C87 & restore to the ILO, its supervisory system, and members the status quo before the Employers' abandoned consensus in 2012 by offering an incorrect legal interpretation.

8/10

Not to mention the customary status that the right to strike has achieved as an inherent component of freedom of association under international law.

7/10

While there is no need to resort to supplementary rules of Treaty interpretation, the travaux preparatoires and the circumstances of its conclusion also confirm that the right to strike is certainly not excluded from the Convention.

6/10

This position is further supported by States' and the ILO's supervisory bodies' subsequent practice, as well as other relevant rules of international law, including a plethora of human rights treaties.

5/10

Under the rules of Treaty interpretation, the ordinary meaning of the Convention, interpreted in good faith, in their context, and in light of its object and purpose, absolutely confirms the existence of a right to strike under C87.

4/10

For us and the vast majority of participants in these proceedings, the answer has always been and continues to be a resounding yes.

3/10

After 13 long years in what has proved to be an intractable dispute among ILO constituents, the Court was asked to answer one simple question:

“Is the right to strike of workers and their organizations protected under Convention87?"

2/10