Recital 23

The Member States have ratified the ILO Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention No 98 (1949), which provides that acts which are designed to promote the establishment of workers’ organisations under the domination of employers or employers’ organisations, or to support workers’ organisations by financial or other means, with the object of placing such organisations under the control of employers or employers’ organisations, are to be deemed to constitute acts of interference, against which ILO Member States need to protect workers’ organisations. It is important for such acts to be addressed in order to ensure that, when defining or implementing practical arrangements for information and consultation pursuant to this Directive, employers and the workers’ representatives work in a spirit of cooperation with due regard to their reciprocal rights and obligations, taking into account the interests both of the undertaking or establishment and of the workers.