Southern African Development Community Work and Governance Conventions, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the SADC Charter of Fundamental Social Rights, and other international and regional instruments. 2. State Parties shall take appropriate steps to ratify and implement all ILO Core and Governance Conventions. 3. State Parties are encouraged to establish national and regional mechanisms to assist them with: 4. (a) the domestication and implementation of ratified ILO conventions and other international as well as regional instruments; and (b) compliance with the reporting and monitoring systems of the ILO and other international and regional organisations. State Parties undertake to observe the basic rights and freedoms in this Protocol. ARTICLE 6 FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING State Parties shall, consistent with ILO Conventions on Freedom of Association, the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining, ensure in particular that: (a) employers and workers have a right to form and join an employers' association or trade union and to participate freely in the activities and programmes of such association or union; (b) every employers' association or trade union has the right to determine its own administration, programmes and activities; and to form and join a federation; (c) employers' associations and trade unions have the right and freedom to organise and conclude collective bargaining agreements; (d) the industrial disputes settlement machinery and method of operation is autonomous, accessible, and efficient; (e) the right to take collective action in the event of a dispute remaining unresolved includes: (i) for workers, the right to collective bargaining and resort to lawful strike action; and Protocol on Employment and Labour -10-