Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine

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FPU (ФПУ)
Federation of Trade Unions
Федерація профспілок України
Founded1991
HeadquartersTrade Unions Building (Kyiv) Khreshchatyk Street, Shevchenko Raion, Kyiv
Location
Members
4.8 million
Key people
Grygorii Osovyi (President)
Affiliations ITUC
Website http://www.fpsu.org.ua

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (known by its Ukrainian acronym, FPU) is an all-Ukrainian voluntary association of trade unions. It is the largest trade union confederation in Ukraine, with more than 4.8 million members. As of 1 August 2019, 44 national trade unions and 27 regional trade unions were affiliated to the FPU.

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Organisation and activities

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was established after Ukraine became independent on 6 October 1990. The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was a successor of the Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions, a part of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. The declaration creating the FPU was signed by 25 national and 24 regional trade unions.

In November 1992, at its Second (Extraordinary) Congress, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was renamed the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine.

The aim of the FPU is to express and represent the interests and protect the rights of its member organisations, coordinate their collective actions, promote unity in the trade union movement, represent and protect labour and the socio-economic rights and interests of trade union members before state and local authorities, represent the interests of members in their relationship with employers and their organisations, and to represent its members in interactions with other citizens’ associations.

The FPU main tasks are protection of labour, socio-economic rights and interests of trade union members; social protection of trade union members and their families; legal protection of trade union members; strengthening of FPU influence on political life and in the formation of the civil society; improvement of the social contract with other trade unions, employers, and the state; cooperating with other trade unions and their associations; building and maintaining the equality of rights and opportunities for men and women; strengthening the FPU as a democratic trade union; and strengthening and widening FPU international relations.

At the international level, the FPU is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and Pan-European Regional Council.

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine is participating in the United Nations Global Compact, has a consultative status with UN ECOSOC.

In June and July 2011 the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office opened 35 criminal cases regarding the illegal appropriation of sanatoriums run by the FPU. [1]

In June 2014 a group of people wearing army fatigues bearing the insignia of Right Sector and Social-National Assembly stormed the FPU Council in Kyiv in an attempt to disrupt the election of a new leadership. It was unclear whether they had any relation to the Right Sector and Social-National Assembly group themselves. [2] [3]

On 29 July 2020, according to Human Rights Watch, Ukraine's draft law would erode workers’ rights to organize and weaken trade unions. [4]

Affiliates

UnionMembership (2018) [5]
Agricultural Industry Workers' Union 400,000
Aircraft Builders' Union of Ukraine55,000
All-Ukrainian Independent Transport Workers' Union19,700
All-Ukrainian Lawyers' Union of Ukraine1,400
All-Ukrainian Union 'Football of Ukraine'1,200
All-Ukrainian Union of Producers and Entrepreneurs3,100
All-Ukrainian Union of Workers and Entrepreneurs in Trade, Catering and Services40,800
Automobile and Agricultural Machine Building Workers' Union of Ukraine36,500
Aviation Workers' Union of Ukraine18,500
Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Workers' Union of Ukraine59,900
Coal Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine74,600
Communications Workers' Union of Ukraine78,800
Construction and Building Materials Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine60,300
Consumer Cooperatives Workers' Union of Ukraine28,300
Culture Workers' Union of Ukraine148,900
Defence Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine20,900
Energy and Electrical Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine122,500
Fishing Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine18,200
Forest Industries Workers' Union of Ukraine10,900
Forestry Workers' Union of Ukraine68,700
Gas Facilities Workers' Union of Ukraine45,900
Geology, Geodesy and Cartography Workers' Union of Ukraine10,200
Health Workers' Union of Ukraine 747,600
Housing, Utility, and Domestic Services and Local Industry Workers' Union 197,200
Innovative and Small Enterprises Workers' Union of Ukraine4,000
Machine Builders and Instrument Makers' Union of Ukraine10,000
Machine Builders and Metalworkers' Union of Ukraine75,900
Nuclear Energy and Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine 60,500
Oil and Gas Industry Workers' Union 94,600
Pension Fund Workers' Union of Ukraine21,000
Radio-electronics and Engineering Workers' Union of Ukraine18,900
Road Transport and Road Economy Workers' Union of Ukraine42,200
Sea Transport Workers' Union of Ukraine30,600
Shipbuilding Workers' Union of Ukraine20,800
Social Workers' Union of Ukraine61,200
Space and General Engineering Workers' Union of Ukraine24,800
State Employees' Union of Ukraine 208,100
Taxi Drivers' Union of Ukraine8,600
Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine12,700
Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine 1,530,000
Trade Union of Workers of Metallurgical and Mining Industries of Ukraine 289,200
Ukrainian Federation of Trade Union Organisations - Foreign Investments Enterprises, Partnerships, Organisations and Institutions Workers' Union of Ukraine3,800
Ukrainian River Transport Workers' Union10,000
Youth Housing Complexes and Local Government Committees Workers' Union of Ukraine1,000

Chairs

1992: Stoyan Alexander Nikolaevich
2005: Yurkin Alexander Valentinovich
2008: Hara Vasyl Heorhiyovych
2011: Kulik Yuriy Mykolayovych
2014: Hryhoriy Osovyi

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Notes
  1. ↑ Ukrainian Trade Union Federation head Khara resigns, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011)
  2. ↑ "Погромщики отеля "Турист" назвались "бандераками" и говорили по-русски (видео)".
  3. ↑ "Националисты устроили погром на съезде Федерации профсоюзов (обновлено, добавлены фото) (фото)".
  4. ↑ "Ukraine: Draft Law Threatens Trade Union Rights". Human Rights Watch. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  5. ↑ Slukvin, Mykhailo; Martiskova, Monika; Sedlakova, Maria (2020). TRADE UNIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AS CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS WORKING ON THE ISSUES OF LABOUR RIGHTS AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN UKRAINE (PDF). Bratislava: Central European Labour Studies Institute. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
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