Definitive Report - REPORT_NO136, March 1973

1. 10. The complaint of the National Convention of Workers of Uruguay was contained in a telegram received on 18 October 1972. This complaint was transmitted to the Government, which submitted its observations on the subject in a communication dated 8 November 1972.
2. 11. Uruguay has ratified the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98).

A. A. The complainants' allegations

1. 12. The complainants allege that the National Convention of Workers of Uruguay had invited two Hungarian trade union leaders to visit their country. These two leaders had consequently requested visas from the Embassy of Uruguay in Budapest, but more than a month later the request had not been granted. The complainants considered that this attitude constituted an infringement of elementary trade union rights.
2. 13. In its observations the Government categorically denies the facts alleged by the complainants. On the basis of information supplied by the Chancellery it maintains that the visas requested had been granted in good time and that the administrative formalities referring to the granting of such visas had been carried out within the normal time limits.

B. B. The Committee's conclusions

1. 14. In the light of information available to the Committee it would appear that the visas requested by the Hungarian trade union leaders, invited by the complainants to visit Uruguay, were finally granted even if delays might have occurred at the outset.