Torpedoing traditional unionism. Employees and their employer or superior (e.g. a blue-collar worker and his foreman or an executive) would no be allowed to join the same unions. This practice (one union in a company, with employers and employees being affiliated with the same union), is very widespread within the Federation of Independent Unions, Russia’s key union confederation (25 million members, i.e. one third of the active population) and the embodiment of traditional unionism, whose members are expecting social advantages rather than protest action. Actually, it is the extension of the soviet system and, in that case, unions often play the role of ‘crisis averter’ for the government and employers.
on (25 million members, i.e. one third of the active population) and the embodiment of traditional unionism, whose members are expecting social advantages rather than protest action. Actually, it is the extension of the soviet system and, in that case, unions often play the role of ‘crisis averter’ for the government and employers.
Not all Russian unions share this view, and the author of the bill, Anatoli Ivanov, former union activist at the AvtoVaz automotive factory, comes from the alternati
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