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4 Int'l Lab. Rts. Case L. 1 (2018-2019)

handle is hein.journals/intlrcl4 and id is 1 raw text is: ; INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS CASE LAW BRILL 4 (2018) 1-2 2 NIJHOFF brill.com/ilarc Introduction by the Editorial Team Workers from states at a particular socioeconomic disadvantage-especially vulnerable groups of workers-often suffer disproportionately from labor rights violations. This volume of ILaRC features three cases in which workers from Bangladesh are involved in three venues: the European Court of Human Rights, the National Contact Point of the OECD, and the ILO'S Committee on Freedom of Association. Two cases deal with Bangladeshi migrant workers whose human and labor rights are under severe stress. A third addresses con- cerns about freedom of association in Bangladesh. In her commentary on Chowdury and Others v Greece before the European Court of Human Rights, Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska of the ITUC explores the application of Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights-the prohibition of slavery and forced labor. This case was brought on behalf of a group of undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers employed on a straw- berry farm in Madola in Greece. Under exploitative conditions, they were su- pervised by armed guards and their wages were withheld. In a conflict about the wages, thirty-three workers were seriously injured when one of the guards opened fire. Muskat-Gorska reviews existing jurisprudence on Article 4 in light of ILO statements and documents and discusses how a spectrum of subtle and less subtle forms of coercion may lead to forced labor and the antithesis of de- cent work. She concludes that the Court missed an opportunity to contribute to conceptual clarity by not adequately explaining the relation between forced labor and human trafficking. Ben Vanpeperstraete of the Clean Clothes Campaign discusses the trouble- some situation in regard to freedom of association in Bangladesh itself He reviews the interim report of the Committee on Freedom of Association in Case No. 3203 on a complaint against the government of Bangladesh by the ITUC. He describes that, despite some initial success for the trade union move- ment in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, progress has stagnated and the current legal and technical framework for fundamental labor rights is woefully inadequate. Vanpeperstraete highlights three issues. First, anti-union violence is widespread and the government's attitude adds to an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Second, the lack of trade union reg- istration options is still an important impediment for workers to organize and bargain collectively. Finally, he stresses that the Export Processing Zones Law (D THE AUTHOR(S), 2018 1 DOI 10.1163/24056901-00401001 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC License at the time of publication

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