Russia’s Electric Power Workers’ Union Holds Congress

ICEM affiliate and Russian power workers’ union Elèctroprovsoyùz held its Congress in Moscow on 7-8 December. Debate centered on electric utility RAO UES’s reform plan.

RAO UES is dividing the utility’s assets in the drive for profits, which brings a severe threat to jobs and workers’ protections. Valèry Vakhrùshkin was elected president, and the union reinforced its commitment to international trade union cooperation through the ICEM in the face of globalisation.

Elèctroprovsoyùz, which numbers 775,000 members, celebrated 100 years of trade unionism in Russia at this Congress, which drew 310 delegates of whom more than a third were women.