In Polotsk court on December 18 at 17:00 begins consideration of the claim of workers to the employer of "Polotsk-Fiberglass". Workers are demanding from the director to ensure passage into the factory of their representative - chairman of the Free Trade Union Victor Stukov, as required by law on trade unions. For over a year the chairman of the trade union director prevents go to the shop to jobs of union members. In court, the workers of the plant will be of Free Trade Unions.

WORDS of workers and directors

Factory worker, assistant master Nikolai Sharah, is deputy chairman of the free trade union in the Vitebsk region, "the Court - a last resort, where we turn to remove obstacles union activities. Prior to that, we turned to a higher authority - Concern "Belneftekhim", appealed to the Department of Labor, appealed to the prosecutor's office. All of these courts recognize our right, but the instructions to the Director to fulfill the law on trade unions do not give a - supposedly it is not in their competence. "

In one of the answers to the prosecutor's free trade union is written: "There are no obstacles for your visit companies in order to monitor the working conditions of employees subject to confirmation by the powers of representation of the trade union in accordance with the current legislation is not currently available." Signed - and. o. Polotsk District Attorney, Counselor of Justice AR Kazakevitch.

In meetings with activists of the Free Trade Union Director of "Fiberglass" says: "Now, if prosecutors wrote me miss union president to the territory, I would have missed!"

FACTS AND FIGURES on Free Trade Unions

At the "Glass" has more than 4,000 employees, about equally divided between men and women. At the last straw poll workers via surveys almost all said "Yes" to the question: "Do you consider it necessary to the existence of the Free Trade Union of Workers of" Polotsk-Fiberglass "?".

The primary organization of employees of JSC "Polotsk-Fiberglass" Free Trade Union created and registered local authority in April 1999. At the factory have primary cell pro-regime "Belkhimprofsoyuz" which is and director. The plant management in every way preclude the entry of workers in the Free Trade Union, the heads are often illegal means, directly requiring workers out of the Free Trade Union.

Union dues in the free trade unions, as in "Belkhimprofsoyuz" make up 1% of the salary, the average salary at the plant about 6 million rubles.

Chairman of the Free Trade Union of Victor Stukov plant twice fired from the company in April 2004 and March 2013. He is now acting as a volunteer while on early retirement with 50 years of work in hazardous working conditions for 30 years.

The ATMOSPHERE at the factory

Now it is problematic for workers to openly enter into a free trade union, whose members face harassment from the authorities, deprivation bonus. The trade union gradually implement a system for the payment of contributions to bypass the accounting plant to superiors did not know about working in the membership of Free Trade Unions. Such a system of payment of trade unions dues established in European countries.

Obstacles workers to organize a union lead to the fact that the workers organize themselves to fight for wages. Was the case when workers refused to work on additional equipment while reducing costs. Use work and the old Soviet method - writing applications for collective dismissal. When attempting to leave on a voluntary basis, when the director does not let go, workers often do not go to work. All sorts of intimidation by superiors not really act on the workers, all are on their methods of resistance.

Alexander Morozov