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Published in: oDRBuilding on bones: working undercover on Ukraine’s deadly building sitesEvery year, dozens of workers die on Ukraine’s construction sites due to poor safety procedures. To find out more, I...
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Published in: oDRGrain truck drivers in south Russia wage war on corruptionA strike by Russian grain hauliers, demanding higher pay and an end to corruption, has gripped the south of the country. RU
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Russia’s Trade Union Movement, 1990s-2000sTen years ago this month, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered. Here, we publish an extended...
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Published in: oDRThe democratic future of Uzbekistan doesn’t depend on the politicians, but whether workers can mobiliseUzbekistan’s transition to a market economy will require further worker suppression. But signs of worker...
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Published in: oDRWhat are Ukraine’s train drivers fighting for?Ukraine’s rail workers are now entering the second month of their work-to-rule action. I went to a train depot in...
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Published in: oDRHow workers in Ukraine’s metal industry are fighting for wages, rights and democracyEmployees at this foreign-owned steel complex in south-eastern Ukraine are setting an example for workers everywhere.
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Published in: oDR“In two years of picketing, 15 miners of working age have died”: how Rostov miners are fighting against all odds for their wages – and respectFor two years, workers at a bankrupt mining company in southern Russia attempting to recoup their outstanding wages....
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Published in: oDRRussia’s car industry, where even the dead work overtimeOnce the pride of the Soviet Union, Tolyatti’s car factories are cutting workers and raising production quotas by...
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Published in: oDRUnion-busting, Russian styleThe Russian authorities are using “foreign agent” legislation against MPRA, the closest thing Russia has to an...
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Published in: oDR“We have plenty of reasons to protest apart from Platon”Still angry at a new road tax collection system, Russia’s truck drivers have now been forced to register as a...
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Published in: oDREastern Ukraine: “We need new ways of organising”Amid military conflict and industrial collapse in eastern Ukraine, activists are feeling their way towards new...
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Published in: oDRDagestan's long-distance truckers are fighting for their rightsHundreds of truck drivers in Dagestan have joined Russia’s countrywide strike against additional taxation. I spoke...
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Published in: oDRIn St Petersburg, long-distance truck drivers are holding out for victoryRussia’s long-distance truck drivers have started a nationwide strike. But without support from political parties or...
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Published in: oDRUndermined: how the state is selling out Ukraine’s coal workersUkraine’s miners were once heroes of socialist labour. Today, after years of sector-wide neglect and corruption,...
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Published in: oDRLife slows down in ChiaturaThe mining town of Chiatura in western Georgia has already been cursed with poor conditions and self-serving owners....
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Published in: oDRA voice from Russia's truckers' protestTruckers across Russia have descended on Moscow to protest a new freight tax which will threaten their livelihood....
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Published in: oDRLeft in the dark: inside Georgia’s Chiatura minesWorkers at the Chiatura mines in western Georgia toil in abysmal conditions. Strikes, puppet trade unions and a...
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Published in: oDRWhat do Georgians have against trade unions?Faced with unemployment, people in Georgia are more likely to turn to support systems of family and friends than...
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Published in: oDRThe serfs of the Volga Car FactoryThe Volga Car Factory in Togliatti is the biggest in Russia. The management recently announced 7,500 redundancies,...
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Published in: oDRNow I'm a union manIn both Soviet and more recent times, Russia’s trade unions have tended to be an arm of the regime, but Grigory...
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