Freedom of association

- The right to associate is a bundle of competing rights

- Association’s right to refuse to admit a member or to expel a member
- Right to write its own rules
- Autonomy of the association
- Right to strike is a species of freedom of association
- Relevance: 98 countries – member states of the ILO- has the right to strike
- Language is extraordinary

Three major justification – three elements are fragments of the theory of justice
- Civic justification
- Functional justification
- Consensual justification
- Ask questions about these implicit theories of justice
- Starting point: the existence of several other logic/principles of justice
- These orders/logic, more exactly, these principles are reasons for acting
- Each order, each logic, each principle belongs to conceptions of justice
- Accommodation of these principles explicit accommodation or sometimes implicit
accommodation (there is a functional interpretation of consent reading consent in a
functional manner
- What are the merits of these theories?
- Pluralist conception of justice
o More legitimate reasons for acting
- Non-dogmatic approach – there’s no essence of justice
- No relativist approach because we can discover typology- there are no values