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Unions sound warning about UK-backed plan to rebuild Ukraine

Lugano Declaration pushes for modernisation and investment, but critics say a just reconstruction is needed

Unions sound warning about UK-backed plan to rebuild Ukraine
Swiss President Ignazio Cassis and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, via video link, at the Lugano Conference | (c) REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved
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UK-backed plans to rebuild Ukraine after the war are “absolutely worthless” and will do nothing to protect workers, labour chiefs in the country have warned after the plans were presented this week.

They say reconstruction plans for Ukraine should include a clear role for trade unions and provisions to improve conditions and train workers. Yet labour organisations were not represented at the national and international talks that saw the plans, signed by 40 states, drawn up.

The Lugano Declaration was presented at an international conference in Switzerland on Tuesday.