Russia-Belarus Union State creates trade union association
On December 17, 2013, trade unions of the Russia-Belarus Union State signed in Moscow a memorandum to create an association of trade unions.
17 December 2013
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The agreement was signed by chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov, president of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions Alexander Yaroshuk and president of the Confederation of Labour of Russia Boris Kravchenko.
The association’s main task is to harmonize Russian and Belarusian laws on labour relations, ensure their compliance with the ILO fundamental conventions - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and with the two countries’ constitutions.
The memorandum is open for signing by any other trade unions of Russia and Belarus that share principles and values fixed in the document.
Leaders of all three trade unions will in turn preside over the association of trade unions of the Russia-Belarus Union State. In 2014 president of the Confederation of Labour of Russia Boris Kravchenko will occupy this position.
Source: profatom.ru
The association’s main task is to harmonize Russian and Belarusian laws on labour relations, ensure their compliance with the ILO fundamental conventions - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and with the two countries’ constitutions.
The memorandum is open for signing by any other trade unions of Russia and Belarus that share principles and values fixed in the document.
Leaders of all three trade unions will in turn preside over the association of trade unions of the Russia-Belarus Union State. In 2014 president of the Confederation of Labour of Russia Boris Kravchenko will occupy this position.
Source: profatom.ru