Trade union activist "black-listed" by employers 21.11.2012 A highly-qualified worker Alexei Pavlovsky, an activist of the REP Trade Union, cannot find work. While the media are full of advertisements about labour shortage in the construction industry, the bricklayer of Category 5 with a 30-year work record was refused employment at more than 5 organizations. In some cases, employers' explanations are just absurd and ridiculous.more >>

Gennady Fedynich: "Our government has long got accustomed to ILO's warnings" 19.11.2012 The Committee on the Freedom of Association of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has called the situation in Belarus "catastrophic". Gennady Fedynich, Chairman of the REP Trade Union, believes that the Belarusian independent trade unions should not sit still and wait for the help from the ILO and the international trade union movement. According to the union leader, "we need to step up our efforts to engage workers into unions; otherwise, no warnings of the ILO will help."more >>

Why are workers of "Polotsk-Steklovolokno" massively quitting official trade union? 07.11.2012 So far, the workers are "frozen" in suspended condition awaiting the employer's response.more >>

Alexander Yaroshuk: "Today we can state a real prospect of serious tightening of ILO`s position on Belarusian issue" 05.11.2012 "The Belarusian authorities are not going to draw conclusions, but bring the situation with workers' and trade unions' rights in the country to a catastrophic state," Alexander Yaroshuk, Chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (known as BKDP), told the correspondent of the IA REGNUM on October 31 in his comment on the statement of the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) about the attacks undertaken by the West under the guise of human rights issues.more >>

City authorities refuse to sanction workers' picket in Polotsk 30.10.2012 The Polotsk City Executive Committee has refused to sanction two pickets on October 26 and November 2, applied for by the workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Polotsk-Steklovolokno" in protest against dismissal of their comrades – two members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) and workers of the State Enterprise (SE) "Polotsk Winery". Three more applications on holding protest actions, submitted by the workers and SPB, are pending.more >>

Holland unionists wrote a book on labour safety specifically for Belarusian activists 27.10.2012 On October 20-21, Minsk hosted a presentation of the book "Training a Trainee: International Norms on Labour Safety". It was written based on the materials of the cycle of the labour safety seminars given for several years to activists of Belarusian independent trade unions by the trainers from the Holland trade union organization "FNV Bondgenoten".more >>

Danish union activists: "Compared to yours, our problems are nothing" 22.10.2012 This week, the REP Trade Union welcomed a large delegation of shop-stewards from Denmark. Twenty-three union activists came to visit Minsk not only to share their experiences with their Belarusian colleagues, but also to get acquainted with the country, its history and traditions, and communicate with people.more >>

Young participants of the picket on the World Day for Decent Work: "On this day, we decided not to stay in warm beds, and support workers of Belarus in their quest to live and work with dignity" 13.10.2012 "Children deserve decent future, young people deserve worthy today!" – under this slogan three young activists of the primary organization of the BNP of the workers of the "Naftan" Oil Refinery took part in the picket dedicated to the Day for Decent Work. The young workers told the belnp.org correspondent why on their day-off they went for three hundred kilometres away from their home, to stand in a picket for an hour.more >>

Nikolai Zimin: "Aim of our membership in IndustriALL is in practical actions, not empty talk" 13.10.2012 Activists of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) took part in the sitting of the heads of member organizations of the CIS countries of the Global Trade Union IndustriALL, the BNP web-site www.belnp.org informs .more >>

On October 7, white-red-white flags of SPM fluttered over Zavodskoy District of Minsk 10.10.2012 The Free Trade Union of Metalworkers (SPM) marked the World Day for Decent Work with a picket held on October 7 in the park named after the 50th Anniversary of October Revolution. The white-red-white flags of the SPM attracted the attention of law enforcers.more >>