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Mikhail Shmakov, President of the Federation
of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) has sent letters
to the leaders of the State, requesting them to raise before
the supreme authorities of the Republic of Belarus the issue
of unacceptability of the violation of rights of Belorussian
workers and their trade unions.
The letters were addressed to Vladimir Putin, President
of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Kasyanov, Prime
Minister of the Russian Federation, Egor Stroev, Chairman of
the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly, Gennady
Seleznyov, Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,
the heads of the State Duma factions and deputy groups, and to
Pavel Borodin, State Secretary of the Executive Committee of
the Confederate State of Russia and Belarus.
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To President of the Russian Federation
V.V.Putin
Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR)
has been informed that the tension between the Belorussian
authorities and the country’s trade unions, namely the
Belarus Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FTUB) and its
affiliated industrial unions, escalates. The escalation
manifests itself in the blocking of the FTUB bank accounts and
blatant threats to bring criminal action against trade union
leaders. All this has taken form of unconcealed pressure on
the unions, particularly before the Congress of the FTUB to be
held on October 10 and 11. Prior to that, the Belorussian
authorities had also been making repeated attempts to curtail
the rights and freedoms of the trade unions, which resulted in
the country’s unions lodging a complaint with the ILO, duly
filed and noted, against multiple violations of the ILO
Convention Nr. 98: Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining
(1949).
The FNPR and its affiliates express their well-grounded
concern in connection with the unending large-scale anti-union
campaign launched by the Belorussian authorities in
contravention of universally recognized norms and legislation,
and the attempts of Belorussian governmental agencies to
ensure their control over the activity of the country’s
trade unions, limiting their rights and freedoms together with
Belorussian workers’ right of association.
The FNPR requests you to use Your authority and influence
to prevent any further encroachments on the rights and
freedoms of Belorussian workers and their unions, all the more
so that this is observed on the territory of a state that has
a confederate agreement with Russia.
On our part, we declare that we shall be closely monitoring
any developments in the situation and leave no anti-union
actions of the Belorussian authorities without due
repercussions.
Respectfully Yours,
Mikhail Shmakov,
President
FNPR
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