Burkina Faso - 2012

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Population: 16,469,000
Capital: Ouagadougou
Trade union action was repeatedly repressed by employers and the police. The right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike was not respected. Demonstrators were injured. Mine workers faced intimidation, as did the general secretary of a bank workers’ union.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Background

President Blaise Compaoré, a soldier who came to power in 1987 following a coup d’État, faced unprecedented civil unrest between February and July after the suspicious death of a student. At least five demonstrators died in clashes between the police and thousands of youths. Police stations and officials building were ransacked and set alight. After five soldiers were sent to prison in March, a mutiny broke out. Then shopkeepers whose premises had been ransacked held demonstrations, followed by magistrates protesting against the release of the imprisoned soldiers. On 8 April trade unions and civil society organised a general strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike . In July, a fresh mutiny caused the deaths of eight people in Bobo Dioulasso.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 16,469,000
Capital: Ouagadougou

reported violations- 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Trade union rights in law

A 2008 amendment to the Labour Code brought some improvements to the trade union rights situation, and explicitly recognised the right to form and join trade unions. The new Labour Code also bans any trade union related dismissal. Although unions have the right to bargain collectively on wages and working conditions, the categories of public servants who enjoy this right have not yet been specified.

The new Labour Code recognises the right to take strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike action, also to defend workers’ material or moral interests. However, occupation of workplaces or their immediate surroundings is not permitted, and the government retains the right to requisition requisition To issue back-to-work orders. private and public sector workers to ensure a minimum service minimum service The operations needed in a public or private establishment during a strike, normally to avoid compromising the life or basic needs of the population or causing irreversible damages.

See Guide to the ITUC international trade union rights framework .

Additional information regarding the legislation
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 16,469,000
Capital: Ouagadougou

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

In practice

No reinstatement for strikers unfairly punished: Trade union leaders and members of several public service trade unions arbitrarily dismissed or transferred in the last few years for their trade union activities have not yet been reinstated. Several court rulings in favour of unfairly dismissed strikers were not implemented.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 16,469,000
Capital: Ouagadougou

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher

Violations

Undermining the right to strike in the mining industry: During the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike begun on 8 April by the local branch of the Geology and Mine Workers Union (SYNTRAGMI), the management of the Taparko Mining Company (SOMITA) told strikers to vacate their accommodation. SOMITA also made excessive use of its right to requisition requisition To issue back-to-work orders. workers, going beyond services essential to maintain production.
May Day march cancelled: National trade union centres cancelled a May Day march in the capital owing the lack of security along the planned route and rumours that some individuals were preparing to infiltrate the march to commit anti-union acts.
Police repress civil servants’ demonstration: Police forcibly repressed a demonstration by employees of the Economy and Finance Ministry on 15 June, on the third day of their strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike . The Burkina General Confederation of Labour (CGTB) reported that seven of the strikers died after the police charged at them wielding truncheons and releasing tear gas.
Right to strike under attack in the banking sector: Following a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike by employees of the Regional Solidarity Bank (BRS) on 26 July, called by their union the Banking, Insurance, Financial Establishments, Trade and Industry Trade Union Federation (FESBACI), the strikers received a letter demanding that they account for their absence. The union had given due notice of the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike however, in the time and manner required. The strikers were also summoned to appear before a disciplinary committee. The employer finally dropped all further action against the strikers after the national trade union centres threw their weight behind the FESBACI arguing that the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike was legal.
Anonymous calls and threats against union leader: Aristide Zoungrana, General Secretary of the National Independent Union independent union A trade union that is not affiliated to a national union. Can also be a union that is not dominated by an employer.

See yellow union

of Administrative and Technical Staff, Labourers and Support Staff of the Public Universities of Burkina (SYNATOSUB), received two anonymous calls in October. In the second call he was told it would be in his best interests to cease his trade union activities “while there was still time”. SYNATOSUB had called a 72 hour strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike , from 26 to 28 October, to protest at the authorities silence in response to their demands concerning pay and housing.
ILO Core Conventions Ratified:
29 Forced Labour (1930) 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948) 98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining (1949) 100 Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1951) 105 Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) 111 Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (1958) 138 Minimum Age for Employment (1973) 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
Population: 16,469,000
Capital: Ouagadougou

reported violations - 2012

Documented violations - actual number of cases may be higher
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