The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Fifty-sixth Session on 2 June 1971, and
Noting the terms of the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, which provides for protection of workers against acts of anti-union discrimination
in respect of their employment, and
Considering that it is desirable to supplement these terms with respect to workers'
representatives, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to protection and
facilities afforded to workers' representatives in the undertaking, which is the fifth
item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts this twenty-third day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Workers' Representatives Convention,
1971: