KGB warns REP activist about criminal liability 09.09.2012 On September 3 in Bobruisk, during interrogation, Pavel Silkov, an employee of the local division of the KGB (State Security Committee of Belarus), warned in writing Galina Smirnova, an activist of the REP Trade Union, about inadmissibility of her actions that can bring her to criminal liability.more >>

BZTDiA bosses promise to let union leader into the factory 08.09.2012 The administration of the Bobruisk Factory of Tractor Parts and Units (known as BZTDiA) have promised to fulfil the decision of the court prescribing to unblock – since September 4 – the permanent pass to the factory of Mikhail Kovalkov, Chairman of the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB), at the BZTDiA.more >>

BKDP Council refuses to consider SPM Congress legitimate 04.09.2012 The members of the Council of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) did not support – at the sitting of the Council held on August 30 – the proposal to legitimize the June congress of the Free Trade Union of Metalworkers (SPM). The reason of this decision was explained to the Praca-by.info by Vasily Levchenkov, SPM Chairman.more >>

In response to the offer of BZTDiA administration, REP leaders plan to visit the factory 28.08.2012 The leadership of the REP Trade Union, which spoke in defence of the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) at the Bobruisk Factory of Tractor Parts and Units (known as BZTDiA), plans in the near future to visit the factory and study the situation in place. The decision was made in response to the offer of the factory administration.more >>

Gennady Fedynich: "Not a single REP union member was included into election commissions" 16.08.2012 "None of our 88 nominees (55 in Minsk) to the precinct election commissions has managed to pass through the 'mesh'..." Gennady Fedynich, Chairman of the Belarusian Trade Union of Radio and Electronics Industry Workers (REP), told the "Salidarnasts"more >>

REP Trade Union: If the country's leadership fails to stop the overreached factory boss, it can destabilize the society 15.08.2012 The independent REP Trade Union has issued a statement condemning the actions of the bosses of the Bobruisk Factory of Tractor Parts and Units (known as BZTDiA) in relation to the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) and treating them as a raider's capture. "Whoever was the conductor of these actions, he or she will be duly punished," runs the statement of the REP.more >>

REP`s Skype and mailbox hacked 08.08.2012 On Friday, August 3, foreign colleagues of the REP Trade Union found that some other people were communicating with them on behalf of trade union activists.more >>

BNP Leader Nikolai Zimin calls on workers of RUPE "Granit"-union members to strengthen unity 28.07.2012 Nikolai Zimin, Chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP), has sent an appeal to the members of the BNP primary organization at the Republic's Unitary Production Enterprise (RUPE) "Granit" with a call to strengthen the unity among the ranks of the organization and to exhibit solidarity with the sacked union activists.more >>

Free Trade Union evicted from factory territory in Bobruisk 25.07.2012 The administration of the Bobruisk Factory of Tractor Parts and Units is illegally evicting the primary organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) out of the occupied office, the chairman of the organization Mikhail Kovalkov reports.more >>

Workers of "Grodno Azot" object to changes in working conditions 25.07.2012 Sergey Antusevich, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) has told the BelaPAN that more than 200 workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Grodno Azot" refused to sign the official warning of the administration about changes in working conditions and turned to the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) with a request to deal with the situation.more >>