De BKDP heeft een document verspreid waarin de nog steeds slechte positie van de vakbonden aan de kaak wordt gesteld.  Er lijkt een plan te zijn om de onafhankelijke vakbeweging te vernietigen.

Bron: www.charter97.org

The beginning of the year “gave a hope the Belarusian authorities will eliminate violations of the rights of trade unions in the country”. “The Plan on government’s activity to promote fulfilling of the ILO’s recommendations has been worked out and adopted, some of its regulations have been put into practice. However, these activities haven’t led to principal changes in the state of independent trade unions in the country,” the document stresses.

The trade unions, members of the Congress, “still suffer pressure in some places, there are facts of discrimination between belonging to different trade unions”. In particular, the statement notices that independent trade unions of Grodno Azot and Naftan companies were denied signing collective contracts, members of the independent trade union at the Mozyr oil refinery and members of the Free Belarusian Trade Union in Brest State University were pressed to make them leave the organizations. Leader of the Free Belarusian Trade Union Alyaksei Habriel was refused prolonging of the labour contract with the district power station in Lukoml.

“All these facts prove that another planned campaign aimed at elimination of independent trade unions in Belarus is going on,” the statement says.

The Council of the Belarusian Democratic Trade Unions Congress says the Belarusian government is “responsible for the consequences of the recent aggravation in the state of independent trade unions”.

“We demand that urgent measures on all above mentioned violations of our rights should be taken and the guilty should be brought to responsibility. If the measures are not taken in the nearest time, we will regard the government’s activities on developing a dialogue with the ILO as demonstrating double standards, setting that don’t change the essence of the aggressive policy of the Belarusian state towards independent trade unions,” the document says.

Besides, if the Belarusian authorities don’t take “further responsible steps” to fulfil the ILO’s recommendations, the Congress may suspend membership of its representatives in the National Council on Labour and Social Issues and recall its representatives from the Council Developing Legislation in Social and Labour Sector under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection “with all ensuing political consequences, including regard to a possibility of returning EU trade preferences”.

“In the current situation we reserve the right to take any measures, allowed by the Constitution of Belarus and international legal norms, in the country and abroad to secure our organization and their members,” the statement emphasizes.