ukrainesolidaritycampaign ASLEF, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, VPZU

ASLEF CONFERENCE DECLARES SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINIAN RAILWORKERS

ASLEF AFFILIATES TO UKRAINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN  The train drivers union - Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), has decided to affiliate to the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign.    Delegates assembled in Southend for ASLEF’s Annual Assembly of Delegates received a message of solidarity from their sister union the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine … Continue reading ASLEF CONFERENCE DECLARES SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINIAN RAILWORKERS

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ITUC appeals to President Poroshenko in support of Ukrainian Miners

Sharon Burrow  General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation has written to the President of Ukraine protesting at the failure to engage with the Ukrainian miners trades unions who are in a major dispute against pit closures.  This is an important step in building international solidarity with the miners struggle.  Dear Mr President, It is with deep … Continue reading ITUC appeals to President Poroshenko in support of Ukrainian Miners

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Andriy Ischenko, European Left, Solidarity

What is required now from the European left on the Ukrainian question:

Andriy Ischenko is a leading socialist and trade union activist in the city of Odessa,  he is active in the intiative towards forming a new left party in Ukraine.  A number of activists in the UK have had the privilege of discussing with him the situation in Ukraine, and the crisis of the European left, … Continue reading What is required now from the European left on the Ukrainian question:

ukrainesolidaritycampaign NGPU, Ukrainian Miners

Miners Unions Open Letter to President of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Miners are engaged in a dispute for the survival of their industry.  As part of their ongoing campaign to stop pit closures the Independent Trade Union of Miners (NGPU) has issued an open letter.    Petro Poroshenko President of Ukraine  Arsenyi Yatseniuk Prime Minister of Ukraine  Volodynyr Groisman Head of Verkhovna Rada of … Continue reading Miners Unions Open Letter to President of Ukraine

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The staff of the JSC Lviv Coal Company block the international highway Lviv-Rava-Ruska

May 13: Today workers of the Private Joint Stock Enterprise (PJSE) Lviv Coal Company, members of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine block the international road highway Lviv-Rava-Ruska at 11.00 a.m.  Reports the KVPU (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine. ) The PJSE Lviv Coal Company is owned by some three private firms and … Continue reading The staff of the JSC Lviv Coal Company block the international highway Lviv-Rava-Ruska

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Solidarity call for Russia dockers’ leader facing prison

The  International Transport Workers Federation is calling for trade unions to back the solidarity campaign launched by the Confederation of Labour of Russia and the Dockers’ Union of Russia (DUR) for Leonid Tikhonov, a DUR leader who faces seven years in prison on what the union claims are false criminal charges. The DUR says that the port’s … Continue reading Solidarity call for Russia dockers’ leader facing prison

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Ukrainian Miners

Save Coal – Save Ukraine: Report of the All-Ukraine Miners Congress

Published below is a full of the recent joint union All-Ukraine Congress of Mineworkers held in Kyiv, and attended by a solidarity delegation of the National Union of Mineworkers.  Thank you to Viktor Sumchenko of PRUP for this report which reprinted from the website of the National Union of Mineworkers. Save Coal - Save Ukraine On … Continue reading Save Coal – Save Ukraine: Report of the All-Ukraine Miners Congress