OFS Norwegian Trade Union Federation of Oil Workers OGP International Association of Oil and Gas Producers OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries PDVSA Petróleos de Venezuela SA PEMEX Petróleos Mexicanos PENGASSAN Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Petrobras Petróleo Brasileiro SA PetroChina PetroChina Company Limited PETROECUADOR Empresa Estatal Petróleos del Ecuador Petronas Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Malaysia) PRI principles for responsible investment Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabian Oil Company SIRV shared industrial relations vision SWF sovereign wealth fund UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization x TMOGE-R-[2008-12-0110-1]-En.doc/v3
Introduction 1. At its 298th Session (March 2007), the Governing Body of the International Labour Office endorsed a proposal to hold a tripartite meeting on promoting social dialogue and good industrial relations from oil and gas exploration and production to oil and gas distribution. 1 It also adopted new directions for the Sectoral Activities Programme, which include the creation of advisory bodies to review the content and type of sectoral activities in order to assist the Office in its work with the Governing Body. 2 In accordance with this decision, the Advisory Body on Energy and Mining was set up. Its responsibilities include advising the tripartite meeting. At its meeting on 2 October 2007, the Advisory Body provided the Office with its recommendations to be submitted to the 300th Session of the Governing Body (November 2007), which included the recommendation that the Office’s report for discussion at the tripartite meeting (this report) should focus on exploration, production and refining in the oil industry. 2. At its 300th Session, the Governing Body further decided, in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Body on Energy and Mining, that the tripartite meeting should focus on recent developments, employment, industrial relations and social dialogue issues in the oil production and oil transportation sectors; that participants should identify the key elements that underpin good industrial relations, including core labour standards, collective labour agreements and voluntary initiatives to strengthen social dialogue; and that they should also identify benefits to the industry from improvements in working conditions and measures to render the industry more attractive to qualified workers, including training and career development. It was also decided that the meeting would discuss the implications of contract work in the sector; that the Office would prepare a report, which could be used as a basis for discussion; and that the meeting should adopt conclusions that include practical guidance for strengthening social dialogue and promoting good industrial relations, including proposals for action by governments, by employers’ and workers’ organizations at the international, regional and national levels, and by the ILO. 3 It was also decided that, after consultations with the respective groups, 12 Employer and 12 Worker participants would be invited to take part in the meeting and that the governments of all member States would be invited to nominate participants to attend the meeting. In addition, it was decided that a representative of the Governing Body would be appointed to chair the meeting. 4 3. The meeting is part of the ILO’s Sectoral Activities Programme, the purpose of which is to facilitate the exchange of information among constituents on labour and social developments related to particular economic sectors, complemented by practically oriented research on topical sectoral issues. This objective has traditionally been pursued by holding international tripartite sectoral meetings for the exchange of opinions and experience, with 1 ILO: Report of the Committee on Sectoral and Technical Meetings and Related Issues, Governing Body, 298th Session, Geneva, Mar. 2007, GB.298/12(Rev.), para. 51. 2 ibid., para. 40. 3 ILO: Purpose, duration and composition of the activities to be held in 2008 and new proposals for activities in 2008–09, including proposals resulting from the groupings of the sectors’ advisory bodies, Governing Body, 300th Session, Nov. 2007, GB.300/STM/1, para. 8. 4 ibid., para. 9; and ILO: Report of the Committee on Sectoral and Technical Meetings and Related Issues, Governing Body, 300th Session, Geneva, Nov. 2007, GB.300/16, para. 30. TMOGE-R-[2008-12-0110-1]-En.doc/v3 1
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