Working conditions and labour rights in Ukraine
Open seminar
- 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.
The UKRARBEID project invites you to an open seminar on working conditions and labour rights in Ukraine.
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.
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.