Russian trade unions demand permission to strike
Russian trade unions are demanding that strike legislation be simplified and strikes be permitted. Boris Kravchenko, president of the All-Russian Trade Union Association "Confederation of Labor of Russia" and a member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights, announced this at a press conference in Moscow, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, this is due to the threat of adoption of the pension reform prepared by the government, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The demand for changes in strike legislation is a consolidated demand of Russian trade unions, and it has now been updated in connection with these brutal actions of the government of the Russian Federation.
If we move away from the welfare state format, we need to give employees the opportunity to defend their rights using collective forms of protest and strikes. We demand and will firmly insist that Russian trade unions be given back the right to strike in solidarity with the possibility of criticizing the government’s socio-economic course, as provided for in the relevant ILO conventions and recommendations,” Kravchenko said.
Let us recall that the Government of the Russian Federation previously approved a bill according to which the retirement age is raised to 65 years for men and to 63 years for women.
Russian trade unions demand permission to strike