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ITUC letter to Kazakh authorities regarding attacks against Dmitriy Senyavskiy
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ITUC/PERC Activity- SEE Economic Experts’ Meeting “The development of wages and productivity and the impact of competitiveness”
The ITUC/PERC Activity - SEE Economic Experts’ Meeting “The development of wages and productivity and the impact of competitiveness” was held on 18 and 19 October 2018 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
PERC Women’s Committee supporting Glasgow women strike
Yesterday and today (23-24 of October) in Glasgow thousands of women municipal workers are taking part in a strike in support of equal pay. The PERC Women’s Committee gathering women’s networks from both EU and non-EU countries in the Balkans and NIS would like to express its solidarity with the strike action organized by the women municipal workers in Glasgow.
The 13th meeting of the PERC Executive Committee
The 13th meeting of the PERC Executive Committee took place on 22 October in Brussels. The Committee discussed the wage situation in Europe and Central Asia, stressing particular need to achieve living minimum wages in Eastern countries, wage convergence between East and West, development of trade union strategies to restore or to build wage bargaining.
ITUC-PERC OSH NIS regional Network meeting, Minsk, 10-11 October 2018
The ITUC-PERC OSH NIS Regional Network Meeting took place from 10 to 11 October 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. The trade union representatives from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia , Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan discussed the recent developments in health and safety policies and practices, and the challenges and the steps that would be necessary to improve the situation.
News from Affiliates
A small victory: Lithuanian minimum monthly wage reaches 430
Determined joint efforts and well argued position of Lithuanian Trade Unions led to an increase of minimum monthly wage up to 430 EUR as opposed to the 420 initially suggested by the Lithuanian government. This result was achieved after complicated negotiations in the Tripartite Council of the Republic of Lithuania.
Miners protesting near the Parliament of Ukraine
On 10 July, miners of the state-owned coal enterprises from the different regions of Ukraine have started the protest action near the Parliament of Ukraine. It’s the third miners’ protest in the last two weeks.
Croatia: event on Occupational Safety and Health issues
On 25th of April the UATUC and its OSH Coordination organized a public debate „Organized Workplaces are Safer Workplaces“ in a fertilizer factory Petrokemija, based in Kutina, Croatia.
Fourth Conference on Freedom of Association and the rights of trade unions organized in Moscow
On 26-27 of March in Moscow was organized the fourth conference "Freedom of Association and the rights of trade unions in the Russian Federation: the state and prospects." The conference was organized by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Russian Labor Confederation (KTR), and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR).
The Statement of the Executive Committee of the KTR on liquidation of the MPRA
On January 10, 2018, the Saint-Petersburg City Court upheld the claim of the City Prosecutor’s Office seeking the dissolution of the Inter-Regional Trade Union “Workers’ Association” (MPRA), an affiliate of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (KTR). As of now, the Court has yet to produce the motivational part of its decision. Yet, based on the analysis of the administrative plaintiff’s arguments for the case and realising the utmost significance of this development for the trade union movement of our country, the KTR Executive Committee states its disagreement with the Court’s judgment.
