Suites données aux recommandations du comité et du Conseil d’administration - Rapport No. 320, Mars 2000

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 90. At its meetings in June 1998 and March 1999 (see 310th Report, para. 66, and 313th Report, para. 65), when it examined allegations concerning the arbitrary detention of Mr. José Ramón Pacheco, President of the Single Grass-Roots Union of Workers of the Department of Education (SUBATRA), the Committee noted that the judicial authorities had decided to release Mr. Pacheco while an investigation continued concerning falsification of documents which he was alleged to have committed (the case remaining open until such time as responsibility for the offence could be determined, given that there is evidence that a criminal act was committed, although the identity of the culprit has not yet been established). The Committee requested the Government to keep it informed of the results of these judicial proceedings.
2. 91. In a communication of 15 October 1999, the Government attaches for the Committee's attention a communication from the President and the Secretary of SUBATRA. It requests the Committee to close the case, since Mr. Pacheco, the former President, was expelled from the union by the general assembly of municipal education workers. The Government considers that, in the light of this letter, the case lacks any elements which would justify continued examination.
3. 92. The Committee takes note of this information. However, bearing in mind that the issue pending in this case concerns proceedings against a trade union official for alleged falsification of documents and that it is not clear that these proceedings are related to the official's subsequent expulsion from the union, the Committee reiterates its demand that the Government should inform it of the results of the proceedings against the former union leader Mr. José Ramón Pacheco.