News on the topic: trade unions
11.07.2014 Babruisk: civil society units to secure and promote labor rights
In Babruisk, the joint campaign “Our Rights” was launched by the local representatives of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry, itsyouth network, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Women's Network of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions and the Belarusian Association of Working Women.
25.06.2014 Trade union activist Leanid Dubanosau detained in Mikashevichy
Leanid Dubanosau, an independent trade union activist from the town of Mikashevichy, has been detained by police and taken to the local police department, svaboda.org said quoting the activist’s associate Aleh Stakhayevich.
16.06.2014 Trade union activist unable to protect rights in court
On June 13, a court in Babruisk considered the lawsuit of a member of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, former employee of the TDiA plant (tractor parts and units), Viktar Osipau, whose employment contract was terminated on April 30. Despite petitions from the activist’s supervisor and his colleagues, Viktar Osipau has lost his job.
17.04.2014 Belarus has “lowest respect for labor rights, trade union rights” in Customs Union (video)
Belarus has demonstrated the lowest level of respect for labor and trade union rights within the Customs Union, says Anton Leppik, representative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), who participated in the discussion of the joint report of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” “Forced Labor and Pervasive Violations of Workers’ Rights in Belarus”, held this month in Stockholm at the initiative of Swedish human rights defenders.
27.03.2014 Stop discrimination!
The Belarusian Independent Trade Union has issued a statement in support of workers of the Babruisk-based plant of tractor parts and units who on March 25 announced a three-day warning hunger strike.
25.03.2014 Hunger strike at Babruisk tractor spare parts plant
Activists with Belarusian Free Trade Union go on hunger strike over discrimination in collective agreements.
13.03.2014 Mahiliou: woman with two minor children is evicted from dormitory
The appropriate verdict was taken on March 12 by the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou.
25.02.2014 Member of independent trade union loses job in Babruisk
Aliaksandr Mikitka, member of the Free Trade Union’s office at the Babruisk-based Plant of Tractor Parts and Assemblies, was notified that his labor contract had expired and the management no longer wished to see him in the enterprise. Earlier this month, the activist won a lawsuit against his employer over a failure to pay bonuses.
08.02.2014 Aliaksandr Sakharuk regularly deprived of wage bonuses for membership in independent trade union
Crane operator of the 5th grade Aliaksandr, who works in the Office of mechanization No. 127 of Building Trust No. 8 in Brest, is strugglng for his accession to the collective agreement.
29.01.2014 ILO mission meets independent trade union activists
On January 28, the Minsk-based headquarters of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions hosted a meeting of its member organizations and activists with a direct contact mission of the International Labor Organization (ILO), headed by the Special Adviser to the ILO Director Kari Tapiola. The mission also includes three experts of the ILO: Oksana Wolfson, Franco Amato and Halton Cheadle.
20.12.2013 Courts refuse to consider complaint of discrimination based on union affiliation
The Judicial Board on Civil Cases of the Brest Regional Court on December 19 was expected to consider a complaint of the trade union of electronic industry in the interests of its member Aliaksandr Sakharuk. The trade union’s lawyers asked to annul the conditions of his employment agreement and to eliminate discrimination at work.
17.12.2013 Mazyr trade union activist faces dismissal
Pavel Nazdra, an activist of the REP independent trade union’s office in Mazyr, has received threats of dismissal after his employer learned that the activist was elected leader of the Trade Union’s group in April 2013.
11.12.2013 Brest: two pickets held on Human Rigths Day
One of the pickets was organized by the chair of the Brest regional branch of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Zinaida Mikhniuk, and the other – by the human rights activist Uladzimir Vialichkin. At the picket organized by the TUREI, the people spoke about the protection of workers' rights, while participants of the other one demanded freedom for political prisoners, holding posters with portraits of political prisoners and postcards with Ales Bialiatski behind bars.
09.12.2013 Dismissed activist of the independent trade union to receive 1 million rubles as a compensation
Luninets District Court partially granted the claim of Leanid Dubanosau who was fired from the enterprise in Mikashevichy.
06.12.2013 No space for independent NGOs and opposition at city conference in Babruisk
The local media reported about the city conference, which, as it turned out, was held in late November and was attended by public associations, which presented their activities.
