Belarus Free Trade Union

The Belarus Free Trade Union (SPB) was a trade union centre in Belarus.^[1] Its headquarters are located in Minsk. In October 2020, during the 2020 Belarusian protests, SPB was classified as "independent" of the government by Marina Vorobei of ProfSoyuz Online, a working group for independent trade union organising supported by the Coordination Council^[2] aiming at a transition of political power from Aleksander Lukashenko.

SPB

Belarus Free Trade Union
Founded	1991
Dissolved	2022
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Location	Belarus
Key people	Gennady Bykov, president

In July 2022, the Supreme Court of Belarus dissolved all the affiliated unions of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, including the SPB, and the Congress itself, ostensibly for involvement in 'destructive activity' and 'disseminating extremist content'.^[3]

References

1. "Belarus". International Centre for Trade Union Rights. 2018. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
2. "В Беларуси работает платформа "Профсоюз онлайн". Через нее можно создать независимый профсоюз" [The platform 'Trade Union Online' is active in Belarus. You can create an independent trade union using it.]. Marketing.by (in Russian). 2020-10-19. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
3. "В Белоруссии запретили независимые профсоюзы". Interfax (in Russian). July 19, 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-02.

Other

• ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

• Organized labour portal