Indeed, the ILO has found it necessary to emphasise to the Icelandic government that the right to strike may only be restricted in services the interruption of which would endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or part of the population, and that a work stoppage in the Icelandic fishing industry does not seem to do so.
"The government must refrain from interfering in industrial relations in the way it is presently doing, in order to comply with the commitments Iceland accepted in the WTO Ministerial Declarations in Singapore in 1996 and Doha in 2001, and in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted in June 1998," Ryder concluded.
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