Trade-union organization the Union of INPP workers
The union of the INPP workers was founded in 1992 as a trade-union organization of a new type. It unites initial trade-union organizations of the workers of the nuclear power plant and town organizations.
Basic kinds of activity:
• to represent and defend professional, labour, economic and social rights and interests of the members of the trade union;
• membership and participation in the activity of international and other trade unions;
• to control the employer observing and keeping within the labour, economic and social laws, collective agreements and
agreements connected with the right of the represented workers.
The performance of tasks has become complicated after the Seimas of Lithuania in 2000 took the decision about a prescheduled shutdown of the 1 power unit of the, and moral-psychological climate in the collective became worse because of a planned mass reduction of the staff of the plant due to reorganization. Today one of the trade union's primary goals is softening social consequences of the nuclear plant's shutdown for the workers of the Ignalina nuclear power plant and their family members.
Form of government: a conference, the council and its government, the elected chairman. Since 1991 the Union of INPP workers has been a member of a republican trade-union structure " Association of independent Unions of workers in Lithuania ". Since 1998 a monthly newsletter "Working tribune " has been issued, which covers the activity of the trade union, the progress of the performance of the Collective agreement on INPP, major events and decisions concerning the workers of the plant, different problems and the ways of their decision. The organization has 3 permanent members of staff, 11 volunteers.
In 2001 the project under the program Phare, directed to raising abilities of the workers of reorganized sectionings of the nuclear power plant, was carried out.
Contact: the chairman Vladimir Trishevsky
The vice-president Eleonora Ogienko: + 370 66 28094; fax: + 370 66 61096;
e-mail: ogijenko@mail.iae.lt;
the post address: Taikos street 68-23, 4761-LT Visaginas.