ICFTU / ILO ALL~RUSSIAN TRADE UNION CONFERENCE
"TRADE UNIONS OF THE WORLD FOR FULL AND TIMELY PAID WAGES IN RUSSIA"
(Moscow, Central Tourist House, Leninski Prospekt 146, November 2527, 1997)
PROGRAMME
November 25 Tuesday
09.00 Registration
Chair of the First day: Mikhail Shmakov, President of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (INPR)
09.30 09.50Welcoming word on behalf of the Russian trade union movement.
FNPR activity to eliminate wages debts.
M. Shmakov, President of the FNPR
09.50 10.00Special features of the strategy of the AllRussian Confederation of Labour
(VKT) in the resolution of wages debts problems
A. Sergueev, President of the VKT
10.00 10.10Experience of the activities of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (KTR)
in the resolution of wages debts problems
V. Konoussenko, President of the KTR
10.10 10.40Contribution by Kari Tapiola, Deputy Director General of the ILO
10.40 11.00Contribution by Bill Jordan, General Secretary of the ICFTU
11.00 11.15Contribution by a representative of the Administration of the President of the
Russian Federation
11.15 12.00Break (pressconference) ~
12.00 12.10Contribution by Serguei Kalashnikov, Chairperson, Committee on Labour
and Social Policy of the State Duma
12.10 12.20Contribution by Vladimir Varov, First Deputy of Minister of Labour and
Social Development, Head of Rostrudinspektsia
12.20 12.30Contribution by Vladimir Kolmogorov, Chairman of the Coordinating
Council of Employers' Associations of the Russian Federation
12.30 12.45Contribution by Ottokar Hahn, Head of the European Commissions
delegation in Moscow
12.45 13.00Contribution by Thomas Richardson, Resident Representative of the
International Monetary Fund in Moscow
13.00 13.15Contribution by Michael Carter, Country Director of the World Bank for
Russian Federation
13.15 14.30Lunch
14.30 14.45 Contribution by Vladimir Torlopov, Chairperson, Committee on Social
Policy of the Council of the Federation
14.45 15.45 Reports on conclusions of sectoral and regional seminars,
held prior to the Conference
14.45 15.00 Seminar for budget sectors' trade unions
Mikhail Kouzmenko, President of Medical Workers' Union, FNPR
14.45 15.00 Seminar for fuel, energy, chemical, wood industries' trade unions
Lev Mironov, President of Oil and Gas Industries and Construction
Workers' Union, FNPR
15.00 15.15 Regional seminar in Kuzbass
Linbov Berezina, Chairperson, Council of Chaipersons of TU
Committees of Health Establishments, FNPR, Prokopievsk,
Kemerovo Region
15.15 15.30 Regional seminar Cheliabinsk
Victor Yushine, Chairperson, Council of Chairpersons of TU
Committees of Defense Industry Plants, Cheliabinsk
A. Markelov, CoPresident of the VKT Organization of the
Cheliabinsk Region
15.30 15.50 Break
15.50 18.00 Discussion
November 26 Wednesday
Chair of the second day: A. Sergeev, President of the AllRussia Confederation of
Labour (VKT)
09.30 10.00 Legislative practices of the resolution of wages delays problems
Reporter: K. Krylov, Secretary of the FNPR
10.00 11.00 Discussion:
a representative of the State Duma
A. Efremenko, President of Public Services Workers' Union, VKT
a representative of the KTR
11.00 11.30 Break
11.30 12.30 Discussion
12.30 14.00Lunch
14.00 14.40 Financial system and demonetarisation of economy
Reporter: S. Clarke, Professor of Warwick University, GB
14.40 15.30 Discussion
15.30 15.45Break
15.45 18.00Role of trade unions in the solution of the wages delays problems
Discussion and adoption of the Conference final document