Central Asia Youth Discuss Promoting Trade Union Rights
5-7 of July in Kyrgyzstan a meeting of Central Asia Young Trade Union Activists’ Network was organized with support of the ILO. The topic of the meeting was c „Fundamental workers’ rights and their promotion by young trade unionists”. The event brought together --more than 25 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
7 July 2016
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Sergeyus Glovackas, senior specialist for Worker’s Activities of the ILO Office in Moscow, made an overview of the situation with the rights of trade unions and the state of the trade union movement in the world and the region. Participants were greeted by vice-Presidents of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan - Ryzgul Babaeva and Jeenbek Osmonaliev. The participants discussed key ILO Conventions related to the trade union movement and the freedom of association.
Dmitry Chuikov, Chairman of the Astrakhan regional union of culture workers, member of the FNPR Youth Council, and Julia Velichko, head of organizational work and information department of the Murmansk Regional Council of Trade Unions, presented the experience of the Russian trade unions in protecting workers’ rights, “cases” of complaints to the Committee on Freedom of Association, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the trade union “public monitoring” activities.
Members of the Youth Council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan - Elena Chub and Nazar Dzhanaliev – organized some interactive activities for the participants, including team building, promotional video, photo actions, elements of organizing, union slogan battle and many other interesting exercises.
The next important stage was to identify priorities for further activities of the Central Asia Young Trade Union Activists Network and methods of communication between the participants. Young trade union leaders have proposed the following topics: social security and gender equality, youth and employment policies. They also stressed the need to review the progress made in the period between the meetings, as well as to listen to reports by each organization during the meetings.
Dmitry Chuikov, Chairman of the Astrakhan regional union of culture workers, member of the FNPR Youth Council, and Julia Velichko, head of organizational work and information department of the Murmansk Regional Council of Trade Unions, presented the experience of the Russian trade unions in protecting workers’ rights, “cases” of complaints to the Committee on Freedom of Association, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the trade union “public monitoring” activities.
Members of the Youth Council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan - Elena Chub and Nazar Dzhanaliev – organized some interactive activities for the participants, including team building, promotional video, photo actions, elements of organizing, union slogan battle and many other interesting exercises.
The next important stage was to identify priorities for further activities of the Central Asia Young Trade Union Activists Network and methods of communication between the participants. Young trade union leaders have proposed the following topics: social security and gender equality, youth and employment policies. They also stressed the need to review the progress made in the period between the meetings, as well as to listen to reports by each organization during the meetings.