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21/03/2001 Memorandum
Of the participants of the republican conference “Trade
Union Rights in Kazakhstan’s Enterprises with Foreign
Involvement” More>>>
21/03/2001 Decree of the
President of the Republic of Belarus’ No.8. Regarding
certain measures aimed at improving the arrangement of
receiving and using foreign gratuitous aid. Document
and comments
19/12/2000 On December 19, the Council of the State Duma of Russian
Federation postponed consideration of a new Labour Code till March-April 2001. A special comission is to be created to
choose one of four bills introduced to the State Duma as a basic and to amend
it.
19/12/2000 The Sixth European Meeting of the ILO has adopted a
Statement concerning Belarus.
The Statement was put forward by the workers' group and supported by the employers' group
and 32 of 42 governments present. Only the governments of Belarus and Russia spoke against
the statement.
12/12/2000 AGROCOMPLEX WORKERS UNION OF BELARUS CRITISIZES STATE AGRO POLICY, DISCUSS
GLOBALISATION, WORKERS RIGHTS AND JOINS THE IUF
Minsk, December 6-7, 2000. More than 160 trade union leaders and representatives of Agrocomplex Workers' Union of Belarus gathered to discuss possible globalization' effect on agriculture and food industry and trade union strategy to prevent its negative
consequences. The conference was co-organized with Belarus Ministry of
Agriculture, IUF and ILO.More
27/11/2000 Latest
information from Belarus free unions about
violations of trade union rights.
27/10/2000
Moscow
McDonald’s officially recognizes trade union and agrees to
enter collective bargaining process
Moscow, October 27 – Commission on Labour Disputes of the
State Duma of the Russian Federation considered a conflict
situation between McDonald’s administration and a trade
union at the food processing plant McComplex. Since 1998 the
union at McComplex stands upon workers’ rights to organize
and to sign a collective bargaining agreement but McDonald’s
administration was resistant and aggressively busted the union
and its supporters. More
Details and photo-report of the action
27/10/2000
IUF
Support for Global McDonald's Protests
On October 24,
the Ukranian
Constitutional Court published
its Decision of October 18, 2000 relating to the
Constitutional grievances of 183 Peoples Deputies of Ukraine
and the Supreme Rada Ombudsman on Human Rights on the
compliance of Articles 8,11,and 16 of the Ukranian Law “On
Trade Unions, Their Rights and Guarantees of Their Activities”
to the Ukranian Constitution. More
MOSCOW COURT CONFIRMS McDONALDS VIOLATES LABOR LEGISLATION in RUSSIA
October 16, 2000. Moscow. Tverskoy Municipal Court in Moscow made a
positive verdict on a suit brought by Eugeny Druzhinin against the
McComplex food processing and distribution centre on considering as an
illegitimate the severe reprimand imposed on him. More...
11/10/2000
Workers unity as an
antidote against president’s stupidity FTUB
Congress: Day 2
Belarus : union
protest goes international (ICFTU)
11/10/2000 CONGRESS
OF BELARUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS, DAY ONE: FIRM STAND AND
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY. The
Congress got down to business despite Administration’s
attempts to disrupt its work
CONTINUED ATTACKS ON UNION RIGHTS IN
BELARUS. Letter of Fred
Higgs, General Secretary of ICEM
09/10/2000 Deputies of
the Russian State Duma Expressed Their Protest Against
Violation of Trade Union Rights in Belarus
08/10/2000 Belgian Unions support Belarus workers:
Belarus
Ambassador in Belgium Confirms That Lukashenko Violates Union
Rights
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.
The ICFTU demands from Belarus President to stop all interference into
legitimate trade union activities, to ensure that the Congress of the
Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus can take place as
planned, to unblock the account of the organisation and to remove all threats
against its leaders.
The ICFTU urges trade unions to support Belarus protest actions on
October 19 by sending messages of solidarity, by making
representations to the Belarus Embassies, by arranging demonstrations
or picketing of the Embassies if possible, and by approaching their
own governments.
06/10/2000 International
campaign goes on: IUF
delegation in Minsk
International
Metalworkers' Federation joins
the cybercampaign.
03/10/2000
Latest news from
Minsk:
October 2 -- Belarus unionists have supported the BFTU leadership in struggle against the government interference and have made a decision to organize massive
protest actions over the whole country in defense of workers rights in Belarus.
02/10/2000 Authorities
have closed bank account of Trade Union Federation of Belarus
on September 27th in order to increase pressure on
the unions and make impossible BFTU Congress, which have been
scheduled for October 10th. Trade union leaders are under
threats of criminal charges.
Due to the latest events the
international campaign of solidarity with Belarus trade unions
changes its guiding line – from letters of support addressed
to the BFTU to letters of protest addressed to the President
of Belarus. Join the campaign,
help to defend union rights in Belarus!
26/09/2000 The Congress of the Belarus Radio & Electronic Workers' Union states that
the delegates are behind the leadership and that they are not prepared to
accept blatant violations of workers' rights. More
26/09/2000
Administration of the Belorussian President has published another curious
document - the letter sent to the trade union leaders of the CIS
countries in response of their protests. See "COMMUNIST GREETINGS TO MOLDOVAN
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS". More
20/09/2000 Belarus: two documents showing the new strategy of undermining
the branch unions by forcing the enterprise committees to leave the
union.
15/09/2000 Belarus: the ASM Trade Union saved its independence following the suit
of the Agrarians. The Belarus Automobile and Agricultural Machinery
Workers' Union (ASM) held its Congress on September 7.
"Time to change rulers" by A. Bukhvostov, Deputy of the Belarus Supreme
Council of the 13th Convocation, Chairman of the Belarus the Automobile
and Agricultural Machinery Workers' Union
14/09/2000 Lukashenko
to trade unions:
“Forget
the word “politician””. “There is only one politician
in the country. Only one politician. I have been telling it to
all of you for years. And this is President”. These and
other remarkable citations in the notes
of the teleconference on agriculture held in
Belarus of July 7, 2000.
01/09/2000
Statament
of Belarusian Free Trade Union About incessant
Attempts of Belarusian Government to Abolish Belarusian Free
Trade Union (the BFTU)
30/08/2000
Mr. A.
Nazeikin, Chairman of the All-Russian Trade Union of
Communication Employees, makes the following Statement in
relation to the fire at the Ostankino TV Tower of August 27,
2000 More
29/08/2000
Open
letter To A.V. Loukashenko, President of the Republic
Belarus by Goncharik V.I., Chairman of the Belarus Federation
of Trade Unions.
29/08/2000
Alexander Bukhvostov, Chairman of
the Belorussian Automobile and Agricultural Machinery Workers’
Union, tells about the development of
events in the Republic and the attitude of powers to the
workers’ rights in the period after a visit to Belarus of
Bill Jordan, ICFTU General Secretary. More
14/08/2000 IUF
press release concerning the last events in Belarus
19/07/2000The
IUF has officially supported and joined the complaint filed by
Belarus unions to the ILO. More
18/07/2000
IUF Condemn
Violations Of Trade Union Rights in Belarus July 16, Geneva.
IUF protest government’s interference in trade union
activities and intimidation of trade union officers in
Belarus. IUF General Secretary Ron Oswald appeals to
Belorusssian President Aleksander Lukashenko to stop violation
of trade union rights. More
Environmental,
Farmers and Workers NGO from Central and Eastern Europe and
the Newly Independent States are campaigning to raise
awareness of the potential threats of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs), and against the U.S. budget proposals for
supporting agricultural biotechnology in the region. IUF
on behalf of its affiliates in the region signed the NGO
statement to the US Congress and Senate. Text
of the statement
17/07/2000 Speech
of the Aleksandr Jaroshuk, head of the Belorussian Agro-Industrial Trade Union
12/07/2000
Belorussian
Agro-Industrial Trade Union Criticizes Lukashenko’s
Economical Policy and Repels Governmental Efforts to Establish
Control over Trade Unions More
12/07/2000 Press-Conference on the
Outputs of the ICFTU Delegation Visit to Minsk. More
30/06/2000 Belarus:
World's
Unions Condemn Rights Violations
11/07/2000 Threats
to the senior shop steward resulting from trade union activity
at "Moscow-McDonald’s"
In connection with the
denial of trade union rights, Natalia Gratcheva, the shop
steward of the Food Processing and Distribution Centre
"McComplex" has received threats of physical
violence addressed to her and her young daughter. The IUF
General Secretary Ron Oswald urged the Mayor of Moscow Yury
Luzhkov to use his influence to oblige the
"Moscow-McDonald’s" company management to observe
Moscow City and Russian Federation legislation and to
guarantee the safety of union members and the basic right to
freedom of association to the workers at the company. More
A delegation of the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions headed by the ICFTU Secretary General
Bill Jordan is here on an official visit. The delegation
visited Belarus in relation to a formal complaint submitted to
the ILO by Belorussian trade unions because of massive
violations of labor rights in the Republic. More
14/06/2000
Violation
of workers’ rights in Belarus. Complaint to the
International Labour Organisation
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