Constitutional right workers

These differences have justified differences in the constitutional treatment of the rights of public employees to join unions and to strike

As with private employees, the Supreme Court has never explicitly held that public employees have a constitutional right to join a labor union

15 Rights at work developed in part as a response to the distinction between the “private” sphere of economic life – what Adam Smith called “civil society” – and the “public” sphere of all that was controlled and administered by the state

This was conceptualized in Continental Europe in the distinction between private and public law

There is no single definition or definitive list of workers' rights

The International Labor Organization (ILO) identifies what it calls "fundamental principles and rights at work" that all ILO Members have an obligation to respect and promote, which are: freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;