Sergey Antusevich: products of "Horizont" and MAZ are of no demand 10.04.2013 The fact that President Lukashenko had personally undertaken to cell MAZ trucks to the distant Indonesia is an indication of the critical state of the Belarusian economy.more >>

"Pinskdrev" workers want to create independent trade union 10.04.2013 However, the bosses of the Holding Company calls on workers to withdraw their application about quitting the official trade union, threatening them with the fate of union activists from the "Granit".more >>

Minsk "Horizont" Factory runs harshly 09.04.2013 Over a hundred workers have been fired from the Minsk-based "Horizont" Factory. For over a month some of its shops work four days a week.more >>

Gennady Fedynich: "Give us five years of work on equal terms – then, we`ll discuss the issue of trade union membership" 30.03.2013 The Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FPB) has offered to fix – at the legislative level – the right to hold collective bargaining and conclude Collective Agreements only of those trade unions, which unite at least 30% of the workers of an enterprise, a territory or a branch of industry. In the opinion of the FPB, the workers-non-members of trade unions should pay for using the privileges fixed in the Collective Agreement.more >>

Administration of Bobruisk Factory continues prosecuting SPB members 23.03.2013 The new Collective Agreement concluded at the Republic's Unitary Enterprise (RUE) "Bobruisk Factory of Tractor Parts and Units" (known as "BZTDiA") is clearly discriminatory against the members of the free trade union and the non-union workers of the factory, said Mikhail Kovalkov, the chairman of the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarusian (SPB), which operates at the factory.more >>

Bosses of OJSC "Polotsk Steklovolokno" fire SPB leader 15.03.2013 Starting March 12, Victor Stukov, the chair of the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) of the workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Polotsk Steklovolokno" was transferred to a full-time trade union position, because the director of the enterprise Nikolai Kochanovskiy had ordered to dismiss the union leader.more >>

Spring "gift" to "Granit" workers: bonuses for adverse conditions decreased; minus additional week of vacations 07.03.2013 The workers of the Republic's Unitary Production Enterprise (RUPE) "Granit" in Mikashevichi are forced – in the mandatory-voluntary manner – to agree to the new attestation of workplaces, as a result of which the surplus coefficient for adverse working conditions was dropped from 3.3 down to 3.2. Workers are indignant and address the primary organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) asking how to protect their interests, since their real working conditions have not changed.more >>

In Bobruisk, workers are enticed by million roubles to quit independent trade union 05.03.2013 The workers of the Factory of Tractor Parts and Units (FTP&U) in Bobruisk are offered one million Belarusian roubles in exchange for an application to quit the independent trade union and join the official one, tells "Belsat".more >>

BNP wins the right to be party to branch Tariff Agreement 04.03.2013 A full stop has been put in the issue of signing the 2013-2015 Tariff Agreement between the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP), the "Belneftekhim" Concern and the organization of employers named the Belarusian Association of Industrial Enterprises (known as BelAPP). The BNP has joined the Tariff Agreement and became a party of the Working Group for creating the Branch Council under the Concern, the "belnp.org" reports.more >>

Gennady Fedynich: we will not scale-up membership at any cost 27.02.2013 At its regular sitting that took place on Thursday, February 21, the Presidium of the REP Trade Union accepted 45 new members of the trade union. The sitting held a serious talk about the principles of recruiting new workers into the trade union.more >>