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The Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) managed to achieve a 6-hour working day for underground works in 1993. They are not going to step back.

Leonid Dubonosov, an activist of the primary organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) of factory workers of the "Granit" enterprise, had a meeting with the General Director of the company Eduard Gavrilkovich.

Vladimir Maley, the legal inspector of the REP Trade Union, has dedicated his 10-kilometre marathon race to the freedom of the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski.

The staff of the office of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) decided to take part in the event, because of which the BKDP was not allowed holding a rally on October 7 – the World Day for Decent Work.

Minsk city authorities have not allowed Ilya Dobrotvor, a member of the REP Trade Union, to hold a picket against the Company "Kapsch Telematic Services", which had dismissed him.

On October 7, activists of the REP Trade Union in the city of Brest handed out their bulletin to passers-by.

Union leaders tell about what should be done in Belarus to make labour decent

Grigory Grik, an activist of the REP Trade Union from Baranovichi, spent just an hour to sign the required contracts for holding a picket with the housing and municipal service and the hospital; however, he had to walk for almost a week to the militia station for the same purpose.…