Digitisation and Precarisation by Vyacheslav Bobkov & Peter Herrmann

Author:Vyacheslav Bobkov & Peter Herrmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783658263843
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Trade unions are designed to collectively protect wages and working conditions for workers. They now unite about 25 million people (or near 35% of employees)12 in Russia. Trade union membership is depleting.

The bargaining power of the trade unions is limited in Russia. One can see it in a wage structure when a variable part exceeds a fixed one. And the latter is quite easy to contract in times of economic downturn. There are different reasons for this limitation. One of them is special requirements for official registration of strikes. As a result between 2008 and 2014, the official statistics registered three strikes per year on average.13 Meanwhile, according to alternative monitoring,14 the number of labour protests reached on average 240 per year in the same period. The dominant reason was non-payment of wages. It is important to say about a decay of the trade unions’ activity as institutionalised organizers of protests. At the same time, they are the main participants of the tripartite commissions on regulating social and labour relations at the regional and federal levels.

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