>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > >In a message dated 18/04/00 10:29:54 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Subj: New - All-Russia Campaign in Defence of the Labour-Code >Date: 18/04/00 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Iskra comrades > A major new all-Russia campaign against the new Labour Code has >been launched. Whilst it is essential for all Marxists to support the >Campaign uncondtionally and to the full - at the same time we cannot support >the politics of all those signatories to the appeal below. The website >mentioned at the end is well worth a visit. Send protest e-mails to President >Putin at the Duma: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Please also send copies to: > cc. shein72@mail. ru > cc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] regards Steve Myers. > >********************************** > >DOWN WITH THE NEW LABOR CODE, THE CODE OF SLAVERY! >TO ALL PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORLD > >from the Coordinating Committee of the >All-Russian Campaign in Defense of the Labor Code > >Dear comrades, > >The Russian Government and President Putin plan to hurry through the State >Duma a new barbarous anti-worker Labor Code which will leave our working >class without legal methods of struggle against the arbitrariness of new >proprietors and state authorities. > >The governmental Draft Labor Code emancipates the employer from the need to >seek the trade union's consent for terminating the worker's employment, its >approval of work schedule and labor norms. This Draft Labor Code effectively >abolishes the 8-hour work day and legal protection of trade-union activists >from bosses' vengeance, legalizes unlimited overtime work without overtime >pay, weakens the protection of working mothers with small children. > >The labor code that the executive committee of the ruling class prepares to >impose on Russian workers throws them legally back to the times of Tsarist >Empire. The newly elected President Putin has already announced at the >meeting with the deputies of the State Duma that the government's Draft Labor >Code would be send to the Duma in the near future and confidently predicted >that it would be adopted. > >If adopted, this Labor Code will destroy the legal foundations of trade union >activities at the enterprise, all legal venues for defending the rights of >workers. Independent workers' organizations--the Alliance of Trade Unions >"Defense" and others--capable of combating the bourgeoisie will be >liquidated. This defeat of Russian workers may have grave consequences for >the outcome of the working class struggles all over the world. > >The Alliance of Trade Unions "Defense" has been fighting this labor code bill >for the last four years and so far we managed to prevent it from passing. But >now this fight is going to be much harder for us, because the new State Duma >is more reactionary than the previous one. > >We are preparing the All-Russian action in defense of the present Labor Code. > >On April 4, the Coordinating Committee of the All-Russian Campaign in Defense >of the Labor Code was established in Moscow. > >On May 17, the Committee plans organize the Day of United Actions with the >following demands: > >1. No - to the Government's Labor Code, short-time contracts, and the >arbitrariness of "owners" and authority! > >2. Yes - to the Control of Workers Collectives in the Enterprise! > >In this struggle, we count very much on international support from the Left >and progressive forces in general. This support may include the coverage of >this assault on the rights of the working class people in mass media and the >Internet, sending faxes and cables to the Russian government and the State >Duma deputies, picketing Russian embassies and consulates. > >If the government meets with a serious internal and international resistance >to its anti-labor legislation there is a good chance to fend off this vicious >attack of the Russian bourgeoisie. > >We ask foreign comrades, labor unions, left and progressive organizations for >solidarity in this struggle. > >At stake is the last remaining conquest of the October Revolution. > >NO - TO CODE OF SLAVERY! YES - TO CODE OF LABOR! > >ESTABLISH CONTACTS WITH US! > >COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN ACTION ON DEFENSE OF ACTING LABOR >CODE: > >1. A. Zaikina, Chairwoman of Trade-Union Commitee (Vyborg ZBK) >2. V. Tonny, vice-chairman of Trade-Union Commitee of Joint-Stock Company >"Leningrad Metal Factory " >3. A. Guan-Tin-Fa, chairman of Workers Council of "Yasnogorsk >Machine-Building Plant" >4. O. Shein, Co-chairman of the Alliance of Workers Trade Unions "Defense of >Labour" >5. V. Gamov, Co-chairman of the Alliance of Workers Trade Unions "Defense of >Labour" (Institute of Experimental Physics, Sarov). >6. M. Popov, Russian Workers` and Peasants` Party, Fund of Workers Academy >7. S. Baiborodova, Co-Chairwoman of the Alliance of Workers Trade Unions >"Defense" (Samara Region Chapter). >8. V. Shishkarev, adjuster from Likhachev Car Plant, member of Moscow >Workers Council. >9. T. Vedernikova, Chairwoman of the Local of the "Plant of Colour Printing ". >10. I. Kuznezov, member of the Executive Secretary of Siberian Confederation >of Labour. >11. D. Symakin, Co-Chairman of the Alliance "Defense" (SpezGBI, Astrakhan). >12. A. Lashin, member of Soviet of Inter-regional Union of the workers. >13. V. Shamin, Vice-Chairman of the Trade Union "Defence" (Lykinsky Bus >Factory). >14. D. Igoshin, Chairman of Workers Council (factory "Red Sormovo"). >15. S. Sychyov, Chairman of the "Defence - Center" Local at the Moscow >Ball-Bearing Plant. >16. A. Nikolaev, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Congress >of Councils of Workers, Peasants, Specialist, and White-Collar Workers. > >17. V. Karachyov, Chairman of the "Defense" Local at "Assembler", Kirov. > >OUR ADDRESSES: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Oleg Shein, Deputy, >State Duma of Russian Federation, >Okhotnyi Ryad 1, >Moscow 103265, Russia >Ph.: (095) 292-98-38; phone/fax: 292-89-06. >193060, St.-Petersburg, Smolnyi, room 441, > >M.Popov, >Fund of Workers Academy, >Tel. (812) 279-8717, >fax. 272-7326. > >This and other materials pertaining to this struggle can be found the >Campaign's site: >http://www.geocities.com/rosskommuna/kzot/eng.html > > > --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
