Ucrania - Union rights disregarded (2010)

At least 17 companies, many of them in the manufacturing sector, withdrew trade union dues from the members’ salaries but failed to transfer the money to the trade unions’ accounts, using it for the companies’ own needs instead. Furthermore, Kherson Cotton Plant PC and Kharkiv Autogenous Plant PC did not allow elected trade union representatives to enter the company premises. NDPISiU LLC in Dnipropetrovsk also refused to provide the union with any company-related information, while the Oleksandria branch of Energovugillia (Dnipropetrovsk) refused to bargain collectively.