Azerbaijan’s Trade Unions Confederation in talks to sign agreements with foreign trade unions
The Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan has been conducting talks to conclude agreements with trade unions of Ukraine, Turkey and Russia’s Leningrad and Astrakhan regions envisioning mutual social protection of migrant workers, the confederation’s chairman, Sattar Mehbolliyev, told the conference on the results of the migration project that the ILO has been implementing in the South Caucasian country.
28 October 2011
“To effectively manage migration processes that are gaining pace in the CIS and all over the world in general, we try to coordinate our actions with other countries’ trade union organizations and sign cooperation agreements,” he told the conference in Baku on October 28. “In particular, we have such agreements with Georgia and trade unions of Russia’s Sverdlovsk region,” Mehbolliyev said.
He noted that most migrants from Azerbaijan, including those who maintained their citizenship, reside in Russia. Moreover, migrant workers from Azerbaijan are employed in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and some European countries.
“At present, there are from 400,000 to 500,000 Azerbaijani migrants work abroad,” Mehbolliyev said.
Source: trend.az