>RUSSIA INFO-LIST >from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ISWoR web-site - http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html >****************************************************************************** > >***** > >URGENT - please distribute this protest letter widely > >Support the All-Russia Workers' Day of Action >on December 1st against the Barbaric new Labour Code > >Join the global e-mail protest NOW! >The list of international signatures will be published > internationally, on and after December 1st. > >The All-Russia Campaign in Defence of the Present Labour Code consider >international solidarity from workers around the world, individually and >through their unions or other progressive organisations, as very, very >important. Please sign the following letter. >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >Dear President Putin, > >As you know the second all-Russia Day of Action against your new draconian >anti-union laws (Labour Code - KZot) takes place on December 1, 2000. The >first protest on 17 May, brought out 300,000 workers across Russia. > >Since the introduction of privatisation in Russia, workers and their families >have suffered enormous hardship. They have seen the average male life >expectancy plummet from western levels to just 56. Non-payment of wages has >become normal, schoolchildren have had to stay home because their schools >cannot afford heating, diseases of poverty like tuberculosis have become >epidemic, and all over the country people have been forced to live off what >they can grow in their back plot. Now, on top of all this suffering, your >government intends to introduce a new Labour Code that will destroy basic >rights held by workers for decades. > >The new Labour Code, devised with the enthusiastic encouragement of the IMF, >will impose a system of casual labour everywhere, removing from the trade >unions all power to act. While at present workers cannot be legally fired if >the union opposes it, the new Code will allow bosses to fire at will, as well >as to spy on the private lives of workers, and blacklist any who have been >active trade unionists. The length of the working day will be increased from >8 to 12 hours, and employers will be able to impose a 56-hour week without >overtime pay. Additionally the new Code legalises child labour and forces >pregnant women to work night shifts. > >We, as part of the world workers and pjrogressive movement protest against >your barbaric new Code. We demand that the right of workers to organise in >trade unions is maintained. We condemn your attempts to legally impose >nineteenth century working conditions. We affirm our solidarity with the >All-Russia Campaign Against the Labour Code, who have called for a mass Day >of Action on 1 December 2000 against this disgraceful attack on working >people. > > >Signed ................................ > >City .......................... > >Country .................... > >Union/Organisation ......................... > >_____________________________________ > >Please send e-mail copies to the following FOUR addresses > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Federation > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - The State Duma (lower house of Russian legislature) > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Coordination Committee of the All Russia Action in Defence >of the Present Labour Code via Oleg Shein, Duma Deputy, Co-Chairman of >Zaschita "Defence" union > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - (ISWoR-MCPP) > >Supporters are also welcome to draft their own messages of protest and >solidarity, with copies to the four e-mail addresses above. > >Faxes can be sent to President Putin at FAX (+7-095) 206 02 66 > >with copy to campaign organiser Oleg Shein at FAX (+7-095) 292 89 06 > >Further information can be found on the ISWoR English-language website at: >http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html > >or on the ISWoR French-language website at: >http://www.chez.com/isworsitr/index.html > >This e-mail has already been (or is being) translated into Spanish, French, >Russian, Italian, German and Finnish - if you can help with any other >language, >please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. > >********************************************************** >The RUSSIA INFO-LIST >puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. >If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or >want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< >Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England >*********************************************************** > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eLerts >It's Easy. 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