Webinar presented by:
Jeffrey Vogt and Amanda Threlfall

About the seminar

The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law were pleased to host a Labour Law Seminar on ‘The Adjudication of Collective Rights: The Right to Strike before the International Court of Justice’, presented by Jeffrey Vogt (Solidarity Center & ILAW Network) and Amanda Threlfall (Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council).

In 2012, the Employers Group at the International Labour Conference broke with decades of consensus and accumulated jurisprudence to claim that ILO Convention 87 (Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise) did not protect the right to strike. That act predictably (and intentionally) set off a crisis within the ILO supervisory system, destabilising the development of international labour law. With no non-judicial resolution in sight, the workers and the majority of governments on the ILO Governing Body invoked the ILO Constitution in November 2023, referring the dispute over the interpretation of Convention 87 to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an advisory opinion to settle the matter. This webinar will discuss the origins of the dispute and the ICJ’s opinion, handed down on 21 May 2026.

In this webinar, Jeffrey Vogt provided his insights into how this decision will impact the ILO and international law going forward. Amanda Threlfall discussed the implications of the ICJ’s opinion on the right to strike in Australia.

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