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Workers’ protests picked up noticeably in mid-December when the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) made public the 2015 state budget bill. It contains far reaching cuts in health, education and social security and threatens workers’ legal rights (see details below).
The 2015 budget was denounced by the two trades union centrals – the Federation of Trade Unions and the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, by five oblast (provincial) trades union councils (Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Mykolayiv and Vynnytsia), by Kyiv city trades union council, and by many local meetings of miners, teachers, industrial and public service workers.
full: http://observerukraine.net/2015/01/16/the-ukrainian-labour-movement-is-growing-again/
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