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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS REFERENCES LITERATUR IN THE UKRAINE
22
Ashwin und Clarke (2003) make similar conclusions for
Russia.
23
E.g. Interview with S.Ponomarchuk, the Vice-President of
the Donetsk Oblast Council of the Construction and Building
Materials Industry Workers’ Union of Ukraine (CBMIWUU),
Donetsk, 22 August 2009.
24
Interview with the KVPU President, Kyiv.
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Програма Дій Федерації професійних спілок України
(2006-2011 роки) (A plan of actions of the Federation of Trade
Unions of Ukraine (2006-2012), № 5з-3, adopted by the Vth
FPU Congress on 05.04.2006, available at http://www.fpsu.
org.ua/images/stories/images/2009/August/programa.doc, last
visited on 10 October 2009.
32
As compared to minimum wages amounting to 80-90% of the
subsistence minimum at that point of time.
25
E.g. the interview with the President of the Mykolaiv Oblast
Trade Union Committee of the Agro-Industrial Workers’ Unions,
Mykolaiv, 2008.
26
Later investigations into unions’ properties uncovered the ownership
by the Federation of joint American-Ukrainian firms
and a lot of premises. The office premises of the FPU are even
today rent to different firms.
27
E.g. Interview with the President of the DBK-4 trade union
committee, Krychkevych, Kyiv, 27 August 2009.
28
“The big cover-up”, Kyiv Post, web-news, dated of 28 August
2003, available at http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/17797/
print, last visited on 15 October 2009.
33
The same sources.
34
“Court cancels election of Khara as chairman of Trade Union
Federation of Ukraine”, Kyivpost, issues dated of 03.10.2009,
available at http://www.kyivpost.com/city/50022, last visited
on 12 October 2009.
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The negotiating unions included the Associations Free trade
Unions, Free trade Unions of railway drivers, Trade Union
Association of the pilots, Federation-Trade Union of the aviation
dispatchers of Ukraine, Independent Trade Union of the textile
workers of the Donetsk cotton factory, trade union of the aviation
of engineers and technicians of Ukraine, Independent Trade
Union of the Illichivsk see commercial port and Solidar Trade
Unions of Ukraine.
29
„Олександр ЮРКІН: «Угода важливіша за вибори»
(Olexandr Yurkin: the Agreement is more important than elections“,
Дзеркало тижня», № 8 (587), dated 4 — 10 March
2006, available at http://www.dt.ua/2000/2650/52762/, last
visited on 10 October 2009.
Seite page 238
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Концепція розвитку Федерації професійних
спілок України (The conception of the development of
the FPU), NP-4-5 , adopted by the FPU
Council on 09.12.2005, available at http://
www.fpsu.org.ua/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=26%3A2009-07-
14-17-36-08&catid=10%3A2009-07-06-16-
44-54&Itemid=36&lang=uk, last visited on 10
October 2009.