Defend Kazakhstan's independent trade unions!
From: IUF UITA IUL
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 5:44 PM
To: am...@tele2.se
Subject: Defend Kazakhstan's independent trade unions!
Defend Kazakhstan's independent trade unions!
The authoritarian government of Kazakhstan has stepped up its
aggressive drive to completely eliminate independent trade unions in the
country. Following years of legal and political harassment of workers'
organizations that escaped government control, on January 4 a court ordered the
legal dissolution of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of
Kazakhstan (KNPRK). Similar dissolution procedures have been imposed on the
confederation's affiliated member unions.
On January 9, the government launched a criminal
investigation against confederation President Larisa Kharkova, raided the
organization's office and seized the union's documents. Repression continued
with the January 20 arrest of KNPRK deputy chairman Amin Yeleusinov, and oil
workers' leader Nurbek Kushakbaev. Workers demonstrating solidarity with the
independent confederation, including through hunger strikes, have been arrested
in police sweeps. The drive to stamp out independent trade unions has been
supported by the state-controlled federation FPRK.
Workers in Kazakhstan need international solidarity and
support - CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN
Oil service workers who launched a hunger strike in support
of the dissolved national center KNPRK are under arrest
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