In Berlin BKDP leader Alexander Yaroshuk met Michael Sommer, President of Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), and other representatives of state and public institutions of Germany.

The General Secretary of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) Bernadette Ségol has made a statement on behalf of the 105 million workers from 46 countries of Europe about the situation in the RUPP "Granite" and addressed the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to put an end to imposing pressure on workers from Mikashevichi.

We kindly request you to write to the Belarusian authorities with copy to the company (see addresses below) and attach a model letter to this effect, with translations into Spanish and French following as soon as possible. Please send a copy to the ITUC Human and Trade Union Rights Department (turights@ituc-csi.org), PERC ( perc@ituc-csi.org ) and to BKDP (bcdtu@mail.ru ) and to the Belarus emba...

Members of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of RUPP "Granite" in Mikashevichi are not going to tolerate the reprisals administered by the administration of the company against the leader of the organization Oleg Stakhaevich. They demand reinstatement of Oleg Stakhaevich at work, and if this is not done they will be ready to go on warning strike.

Rally of independent unions was held May 1 at Bangalore Square in Minsk to mark International Solidarity Day of workers and was attended by more than 200 activists. The rally was organized by of activists of the of electronics industry workers’ union (REP), which has succeeded to get permissio...

The General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Sharan Burrow and General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), John Monks were shocked by the news of the barbaric act of terrorism in the Minsk metro. In their letter to the BKDP Chairman Alexander Yaroshuk the leaders of the ITUC and ETUC have expressed...

Management of Mozyr Oil refinery has renewed its attempts on mass withdrawal of company workers from independent union.

On March 17 in the Labor Ministry premises the BKDP Deputy Chairman Nikolai Kanakh took part in the meeting of the Working group. Group members were to formulate the agenda of the next meeting of the Council for improvement of labor and social legislation which has been preliminarily scheduled for April.