>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 05:16:01 EDT >Subject: Labour Code - Appeal by Trade Union Leaders > > >RUSSIA INFO-LIST > >Moscow, Sept. 30, 2000 > >To All Workers and Comrades! > >We representatives of work collectives and labor organizations in Russia >address you with a warning about the danger hanging over the heads of the >workers of our country. The government of Russia, carrying out the will of >big business, the multinational corporations, and the body of factory >directors in Russia, is preparing to push the new Labor Code through the >Duma [Russia���s parliament]. This body of law will mean the elimination of >all the basic rights of working people in Russia and the destruction of the >labor organizations now functioning in the workplaces of our country. > >It is clear that in the Duma there are no factions that express the >interests of the workers. It is clear that the Russian parliament simply >serves the interests of the ruling class. But life has shown that our >solidarity actions are capable of stopping the capitalists. We have already >thwarted the plans for eliminating the existing Labor Code by the protest >campaigns we carried out from 1998 to 2000. > >Of course the existing Labor Code is not a panacea. It means nothing without >the activity of the workers themselves. But it is an additional weapon in our >struggle, and a weapon of extreme importance. It is the use of existing labor >legislation that allows us to carry out strikes without fear of reprisals by >management. It forbids the firing of worker activists, and in the event of >such firing, it enables us to win those jobs back through the courts. It >allows workers to form and build their own organizations --- labor unions. > >We call on you to wage the fiercest possible battle against the government���s >proposed Labor Code. Long live workers��� solidarity! > >Signed by: > > - S.N. Kvashin ��� >chairman of the trade union committee at the joint-stock company Tutayev >Motor Works, city of Tutayev > - R.B. Pugacheva ��� >co-chair, interdistrict union of workers, city of Moscow > - M.D. Chernigovsky ��� >member of the OAO trade union committee at the joint stock company >"Sibelektroterm," city of Novosibirsk > - A.N. Nikolaev ��� >chair, Zashchita trade union committee at the GNPTs "Zvezda-Strela," city of >Korolev > - A.Yu. Zaikina ��� >chair, Zashchita trade union committee at the joint-stock company "Vyborg >Paper Mill," Leningrad province > - M.S. Marikyan ��� >chair, strike committee at the state-owned enterprise "Leningrad North >Works," city of St. Petersburg > - T.B. Vedernikova ��� >chair, trade union committee at the joint stock company "Color Printing >Complex," city of St. Petersburg > - T.P. Dudareva ��� >chair, People���s Committee, sanitary-protection zone, Astrakhan province > - E.M. Menlibayeva ��� >chair, People���s Committee, hamlet of Molodyozhny, Astrakhan province > O.L. Shamanina ��� >chair, trade union committee at the joint-stock company >"Tyazhstankogidropress," city of Novosibirsk > - V.A. Shomin ��� >chair, Zashchita trade union committee at the joint-stock company "Likinsky >Bus Plant," Moscow province > - O.I. Kasperovich ��� >chair, Zashchita trade union committee at the joint stock company "Sayan >Aluminum Plant," city of Sayanogorsk > - S.Ye. Sychev ��� >chair, Zashchita Center trade union committee at the joint stock company, >"Moscow Ball Bearing (GPZ-1)," city of Moscow > - O.B. Babich ��� >coordinator, interregional association of labor unions Zashchita Truda >(Defense of Labor) > - A.A. Denyakin ��� >chair, trade union committee, joint-stock company "Kuznetsk Metallurgical >Concern," city of Novokuznetsk > - V.A. Belin ��� >deputy chair of the trade union committee at the joint-stock company >"Chernigovsky Coal Pit," Kemerovo province > - L.K. Ryzhov ��� >chair of the Pravo (Right) free trade union of aerospace organizations, >Voronezh province > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > ISWoR thanks George Shriver for the translation >*********************************************************** >The RUSSIA INFO-LIST >Messages here do not necessarily relfect the views of ISWoR supporters >who come from a wide range of opinions. >If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or >want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England > >web site - http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
