The UKRARBEID project invites you to an open seminar on working conditions and labour rights in Ukraine.
WHERE: Folkets Hjørne, Youngs gate 29
WHEN: 28 May 14.30 – 16.00
Light refreshments will be served. No registration required. The event will be held in English.
Programme
- 14.30-14.40: Welcome and presentation of the project «Working Life in Ukraine”, project leader Jørn Holm-Hansen, NIBR-OsloMet
- 14.40-15.00: Vitalii Dudin, Sotsialnyi Rukh, Workers’ Rights in Ukraine: Current Challenges and Risks of Reforms
- 15.00-15.20: Oksana Dutchak, Institute for Systemic Alternatives – Kyiv, Workers’ rights in Ukraine’s typical female-dominated occupations.
- 15.20-15.40: Denys Gorbach, social scientist and author, The three worlds of Ukrainian trade unionism.
- 15.40-15.55: Nataliya Yeremeyeva, coordinator of the Ukraine Programme of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), Labour Solidarity in Times of War and Reconstruction
- 15.55-16.00: Summing up
The seminar is part of the UKRARBEID project, funded by HK-dir’s Programme for Ukraine Competence. The event is organized by the UKRARBEID project in collaboration with LO and UKRAINETT.
Speakers
Vitalii Dudin is a Ukrainian labour lawyer, PhD in labour law and a co-founder of the grassroots organisation Sotsialnyj Rukh (Social Movement).
Oksana Dutchak is a sociologist and social anthropologist specialising in social reproduction, care work and gender inequality. She is also co-editor of the journal Spilne/Commons.
Denys Gorbach is a social scientist and author of the book “The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class – Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City” (Berghahn Books), which is based on ethnographic research of Ukrainian workplaces and working-class communities.
Nataliya Yeremeyeva is coordinator of the Ukraine Programme of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO).
Jørn Holm-Hansen is a political scientist, senior researcher at NIBR-OsloMet and project leader for the HK-dir funded project on working conditions and labour rights in Ukraine.
