News archive on the topic "trade unions"

The founding conference of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Kherson Region, which will focus on Russia, took place, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The new federation unites trade union organizations of environmental workers, farmers, trade workers, utility workers, food workers and entrepreneurs. The head of the Supreme State Administration, Vladimir Saldo, thanked the representatives of Russia and the Donbass republics, who are “helping to restore the entire system of relationships between enterprises, entrepreneurs and labor collectives” in the Kherson region. Chairman of the Federation...

A rally was held near the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv in support of participants in strikes at enterprises in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. About two dozen people gathered under the walls of the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv. The rally was organized by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine, which is headed by Verkhovna Rada deputy Mikhail Volynets from Yulia Tymoshenko's party. The picketers demanded that the Belarusian authorities “stop the persecution and...

In modern Ukraine, the trade union movement in the form in which it existed in the USSR and Western Europe cannot be revived. We need new forms of protecting workers' rights and eliminating the oligarchy. Ex-parliamentary deputy Vasily Volga said this on the air of “First Cossack”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. Then (in the late USSR - ed.) there were actually not trade unions,...

Russian trade unions are demanding that strike legislation be simplified and strikes allowed. Boris Kravchenko, president of the all-Russian association of trade unions “Confederation of Labor of Russia”, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, this is due to the threat of accepting the pension reform prepared by the government, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The demand for changes to strike legislation is consolidated...

Recent weeks in Ukraine have been marked by extraordinary strike activity, Izvestia writes. It is noted that in May, an Italian strike was carried out by Kremenchug railway workers, who demanded the repair of locomotives, higher wages, the right to retire from age 55, the dismissal of the management of Ukrzaliznytsia and the return of the Kremenchug-Moscow train. In addition, ArcelorMittalKrivoy Rog workers went on strike and eventually achieved an increase in wages; miners from a number of Shahs continue to go on strike in the territory of Donbass, controlled by Kyiv. “In the current...

Wage arrears in Ukraine have exceeded $2,5 billion and must be repaid immediately. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Grigory Osovoy, Chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, neither the public sector nor private companies show any social responsibility or responsibility here...

Workers at the Kremenchug locomotive depot declared an “Italian strike,” that is, “work according to instructions.” Not a single locomotive entered the line, because none of them is technically serviceable. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was announced by the head of the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers operating at the enterprise, Sergei Moskalets. According to him, now 30...

A rally was held at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, organized by the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine and its sectoral trade union organizations. The protesters demanded an increase in wages and social benefits, payment of arrears of wages and the cancellation of Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 461 of June 24.06.2016, 1 on the reduction of Lists No. 2 and No. XNUMX, which give the right to early retirement for work in difficult and harmful...

Right-wing radicals from the Azov Civil Code (an actual subsidiary of the neo-Nazi regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine of the same name) rallied together with trade unions in Kyiv because they do not have their own human resources. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte This opinion was expressed at a press conference in Kyiv by the director of the information and analytical Center “Perspective” Pavel Rudyakov, who compared the leaders of Ukrainian trade unions with a bride who has stayed too long on her marriageable age,…

The LPR flag took the place of the Ukrainian one at the international trade union conference in Damascus. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The Lugansk Information Center reports this. The organizers of the international trade union conference of solidarity with Syria replaced the Ukrainian flag with the flag of the Lugansk People's Republic in the forum meeting room. This was announced by a conference delegate from the LPR, chairman...

Trade unions of Ukraine made urgent proposals to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the government regarding an urgent increase in social spending. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This is stated in a statement released by the press service of the Ministry of Finance in connection with today's protests of independent trade unions in Kyiv. “The implementation of the demands voiced by the trade unions requires significant additional costs...

People hoped that as a result of the “Revolution of Dignity” they would live better, but everything only got worse, says Alexander Ryabko, deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Miners and Metallurgists of Ukraine. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Our government promised that we would live in a new way. People want a normal job, a legal salary, the opportunity to raise...

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine will hold three pickets of the Cabinet of Ministers - on May 27, June 3 and June 10. Deputy Chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine Sergei Kondryuk announced this at a press conference. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The demands of the trade unions include a revision of gas and utility tariffs, an increase in the cost of living and wages, as well as...

Kyiv, December 18 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The leadership of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FTU) is trying to prevent protests against the cuts in social benefits and payments planned by the Yatsenyuk government. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Deputy Chairman of the FPU Evgeniy Drapyaty, who served as First Deputy Permanent Representative from 2004 to 2010, shared his thoughts on this matter at a press conference in Kiev...