# Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (known by its Ukrainian acronym, FPU) is an all-Ukrainian voluntary association of trade unions. It is the largest trade union confederation in Ukraine, with more than 4.8 million members. As of 1 August 2019, 44 national trade unions and 27 regional trade unions were affiliated to the FPU.

## Organisation and activities

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was established after Ukraine became independent on 6 October 1990. It was a successor to the Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions, which was part of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. The declaration creating the FPU was signed by 25 national and 24 regional trade unions.
In November 1992, at its Second (Extraordinary) Congress, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine was renamed the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine.
The aim of the FPU is to express and represent the interests and protect the rights of its member organisations, coordinate their collective actions, promote unity in the trade union movement, represent and protect labour and the socio-economic rights and interests of trade union members before state and local authorities, represent the interests of members in their relationship with employers and their organisations and represent its members in interactions with other citizens’ associations.
The FPU main tasks are protection of labour, socio-economic rights and interests of trade union members; social protection of trade union members and their families; legal protection of trade union members; strengthening of FPU influence on political life and in the formation of the civil society; improvement of the social contract with other trade unions, employers and the state; cooperating with other trade unions and their associations; building and maintaining the equality of rights and opportunities for men and women; strengthening the FPU as a democratic trade union and strengthening and widening FPU international relations.
At the international level, the FPU is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and Pan-European Regional Council.
The FPU is participating in the United Nations Global Compact and has a consultative status with the UN ECOSOC.
In June and July 2011, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office opened 35 criminal cases regarding the illegal appropriation of sanatoriums run by the FPU.
In June 2014, a group of people wearing army fatigues bearing the insignia of Right Sector and Social-National Assembly stormed the FPU Council in Kyiv in an attempt to disrupt the election of a new leadership. It was unclear whether they had any relation to the Right Sector and Social-National Assembly group themselves.
On 29 July 2020, according to Human Rights Watch, Ukraine's draft law would erode workers’ rights to organize and weaken trade unions.

## Affiliates

| Union | Membership (2018) |
| Agricultural Industry Workers' Union | 400,000 |
| Aircraft Builders' Union of Ukraine | 55,000 |
| All-Ukrainian Independent Transport Workers' Union | 19,700 |
| All-Ukrainian Lawyers' Union of Ukraine | 1,400 |
| All-Ukrainian Union 'Football of Ukraine' | 1,200 |
| All-Ukrainian Union of Producers and Entrepreneurs | 3,100 |
| All-Ukrainian Union of Workers and Entrepreneurs in Trade, Catering and Services | 40,800 |
| Automobile and Agricultural Machine Building Workers' Union of Ukraine | 36,500 |
| Aviation Workers' Union of Ukraine | 18,500 |
| Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Workers' Union of Ukraine | 59,900 |
| Coal Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 74,600 |
| Communications Workers' Union of Ukraine | 78,800 |
| Construction and Building Materials Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 60,300 |
| Consumer Cooperatives Workers' Union of Ukraine | 28,300 |
| Culture Workers' Union of Ukraine | 148,900 |
| Defence Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 20,900 |
| Energy and Electrical Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 122,500 |
| Fishing Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 18,200 |
| Forest Industries Workers' Union of Ukraine | 10,900 |
| Forestry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 68,700 |
| Gas Facilities Workers' Union of Ukraine | 45,900 |
| Geology, Geodesy and Cartography Workers' Union of Ukraine | 10,200 |
| Health Workers' Union of Ukraine | 747,600 |
| Housing, Utility, and Domestic Services and Local Industry Workers' Union | 197,200 |
| Innovative and Small Enterprises Workers' Union of Ukraine | 4,000 |
| Machine Builders and Instrument Makers' Union of Ukraine | 10,000 |
| Machine Builders and Metalworkers' Union of Ukraine | 75,900 |
| Nuclear Energy and Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 60,500 |
| Oil and Gas Industry Workers' Union | 94,600 |
| Pension Fund Workers' Union of Ukraine | 21,000 |
| Radio-electronics and Engineering Workers' Union of Ukraine | 18,900 |
| Road Transport and Road Economy Workers' Union of Ukraine | 42,200 |
| Sea Transport Workers' Union of Ukraine | 30,600 |
| Shipbuilding Workers' Union of Ukraine | 20,800 |
| Social Workers' Union of Ukraine | 61,200 |
| Space and General Engineering Workers' Union of Ukraine | 24,800 |
| State Employees' Union of Ukraine | 208,100 |
| Taxi Drivers' Union of Ukraine | 8,600 |
| Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union of Ukraine | 12,700 |
| Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine | 1,530,000 |
| Trade Union of Workers of Metallurgical and Mining Industries of Ukraine | 289,200 |
| Ukrainian Federation of Trade Union Organisations - Foreign Investments Enterprises, Partnerships, Organisations and Institutions Workers' Union of Ukraine | 3,800 |
| Ukrainian River Transport Workers' Union | 10,000 |
| Youth Housing Complexes and Local Government Committees Workers' Union of Ukraine | 1,000 |

## Chairs

    1992: Stoyan Alexander Nikolaevich
    2005: Yurkin Alexander Valentinovich
    2008: Hara Vasyl Heorhiyovych
    2011: Kulik Yuriy Mykolayovych
    2014: Hryhoriy Osovyi