Resolution On Tripartism And Social Dialogue

In 1999, the new Director-General, Somavia recognized the positive role played by civil society organizations and the establishment stronger links with them in his first report. Trade unions and employers were worried about losing their privileged place in the ILO governing structure. To prevent this direction, Resolution on Tripartism and Social Dialogue (ILC 2002) was introduced in order to reaffirm the irreplaceable tripartite structure of the ILO. Tripartism is an effective and decisive mechanism or facilitating dialogue with civil society organizations. In fact, before the adopting tripartism structure, the Director-General had required a report with total figures, representatives of governments, trade unions, employer associations, and

Each actor such as unions and employers has their own priority when considering the notion of decent work, or a similar problem could appear in the case of a poor country and rich country. In a global economy, the primacy of economic growth implied that developing countries should be allowed to exploit fully their main source of comparative advantage in international trade, namely low labor costs and standards. Rights and social protection will be only ensured when they reached a certain level of development. Thus, some developed countries consider labor standards as a so-called protectionism, for example the United States had not ratified most of the core ILO conventions. In contrast, fundamental rights are the basic factor for trade unions, so fundamental rights would foster a country’s economic growth by competing on quality and human capital development rather than by keeping labor costs and standards at a low lever. (Baccaro et al. 2012). From all different point of views, measuring a decent work is hard because of inner intellections and

Another topic on the agenda of the 2003 conference was the development of technical standards for the collection of social dialogue indicators but the response of the conference was quite negative. With all efforts but little progress on building a set of labor standards indicators, the decent work indicators seems to be disappeared from sight.
The variations in labor standards across countries and the development gap in countries’ economies appear. Additionally, while the enforcement of labor standards and evaluation of its effectiveness varies through different each country's institutions, the role of the ILO is too comprehensive, it may constrain in research each individual case of each country.
Since the introduction of the decent work strategy, although some separate index from ILO’s conventions could be applied, ILO seems to be on its way to producing a full set of quantitative measures of labor standards. The application of these index means that the impact on country policies would be smaller than it could be. The factors behind the insufficient internal consensus for a full indicator has been a mystery and made application of indicators, if possible, be more subjective or brought more controversial debates