The Jordanian Labor Observatory reported that the campaign of "free trade union organization" to demand fundamental amendments to the Jordanian labor law according to international standards attracted more than five thousand trade unions and civil society organizations defending human rights, local, regional and international. The observatory pointed out that these structures had interacted with a campaign to collect signatures.
It is worth noting that the campaign calls on the Jordanian government and the parliament to make amendments to the Jordanian labor law currently before parliament, in a manner that recognizes and protects workers' rights more, especially the rights related to trade union organization and collective bargaining.
At a time when the campaign organizers expected to discuss the Labor Law at any time in the Senate, they reiterated that the essence of the Labor Law should be focused on giving workers the right to organize themselves and bargain collectively by allowing them to form trade unions. They stressed that this right is guaranteed by the Jordanian constitution as well as by the international conventions ratified by Jordan for many decades. However, this right is restricted in the labor law. The law restricts the exercise of this right to only 17 labor unions and deprives the rest of the workers of the freedom to establish and choose the unions they wish to establish or join.
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