Case No 2090 (Belarus) - Complaint date: 16-JUN-00

The Belarus Automobile and Agricultural Machinery Workers’ Union (AAMWU), the Agricultural Sector Workers’ Union (ASWU), the Radio and Electronics Workers’ Union (REWU), the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (CDTU), the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FPB), the Belarusian Free Trade Union (BFTU), the Belarusian Trade Union of Air Traffic Controllers (BPAD), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF)

Allegations

The complainants’ pending allegations concern: interference by government authorities with trade union activities and elections, in particular as concerns the presidency of the trade union federation and subsequent favouritism; continuing government interference in the internal affairs of the REWU, AAMWU, CDTU, and the Minsk Regional Trade Union Organization of Employees in the Cultural Sphere (MRTUECS) and the ultimate dissolution of the BPAD by order of the Supreme Court; detention of the CDTU Chairperson for the exercise of his freedom of expression in relation to the defence of trade union rights; administrative detentions of the CDTU lawyer and of the AAMWU president; dismissals and further blacklisting for employment of trade union leaders Evgenov, Evmenov and Bourgov; obstacles to registration in Presidential Decree No. 2 and the non-registration of primary-level organizations of the BFTU; interference in internal trade union activities by virtue of Presidential Decrees Nos. 8 and 11

Case No 2090 (Belarus) - Complaint date: 16-JUN-00

Allegations

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