19 May 2004 05:21
Russian Trade unions to protest in 1,000 cities on June 10
MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - The Federation of Russian Independent Trade Unions is planning actions in defense of
working people's rights in over 1,000 cities on June 10.
"The federation's executive committee has decided to hold a nationwide trade union action on June 10, 2004,
and launch preparations for a general warning strike. Executive and legislative bodies in over 1,000 cities of Russia
will be picketed during the June 10 action," says a statement from the federation received by Interfax on
Wednesday.
"The purpose of the action is to force the authorities to freeze the adoption of anti-social bills and discuss
them at the trilateral commission, where we can thrash them out and make the necessary amendments," the
federation's Chairman Mikhail Shmakov said in the statement.
"The past few months have seen a large-scale offensive against the rights of working people," Shmakov said.
"Someone has decided that the opinion of trade unions can be ignored. It seems that the time has come to proceed
from talks to a show of force of working people's associations," he said. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG POL] ml tl
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