Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine

FPU (ФПУ)

Federation of Trade Unions

Федерація профспілок України

Founded| 1991
Headquarters| Trade Unions Building, Kyiv
Location|

* Ukraine

Members| 4.8 million

Key people

| Grygorii Osovyi (President)
Affiliations| ITUC
Website| http://www.fpsu.org.ua

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (known by its Ukrainian acronym, FPU) is Ukraine's largest trade union centre 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

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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.[citation needed]

The FPU is participating in the United Nations Global Compact and has a consultative status with the UN ECOSOC.

## History

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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.

In June and July 2011, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine opened 35 criminal cases against the FPU for alleged misappropriation of sanatoriums. In November, Vasyl Khara, the president of FPU resigned[1]

In 2013 and 2014, during the Euromaidan protests, the union's office in Kyiv, the Trade Unions Building, served as the headquarters for the protesters. As a consequence of the fighting, the building burned to the ground.[2]

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.[3][4]

In 2020, after the election of Volodymyr Zelenskyy the government doubled down on earlier legal processes to acquire property owned by the FPU. The same year, the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation alleged that union officials had sold 80 properties illegally by not consulting with the government before selling.[5]

In 2022, the government passed controversial labour laws that invalidated collective agreements during martial law, legalised zero-hour contracts, increased the maximum legal work day to 12 hours, and allowed employers to fire workers without justification. As a response, the FPU presented a challenge in the Constitutional Court and with the International Labour Organization.[6][7]

In April 2025, the union's president Grygorii Osovyi was put under house arrest along with the leader of the KVPU, amid government moves to seize property owned by the FPU, an action sparking response from the international labour movement. The reasoning for the arrest being misappropriation of property the government sees as their own.[8][9][10][11]

On April 22, the headquarters of the FPU were seized and transferred to a private trust by the Asset Recovery and Management Agency.[12]

## Affiliates

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Union | Membership (2018)[13]

|

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

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1992: Stoyan Alexander Nikolaevich
2005: Yurkin Alexander Valentinovich
2008: Vasyl Khara[14]
2011: Yuriy Kulyk
2014: Grygorii Osovyi

## See also

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* Organized labour portal

* Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine
* National Confederation of the Trade-Union Organizations of Ukraine
* Central Union of Consumer Associations of Ukraine

## References

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Notes

1. ^ Ukrainian Trade Union Federation head Khara resigns, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011)
2. ^ "ПАМ'ЯТІ БУДИНКУ ПРОФСПІЛОК. Фото". Історична правда. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
3. ^ "Погромщики отеля "Турист" назвались "бандераками" и говорили по-русски (видео)".
4. ^ "Националисты устроили погром на съезде Федерации профсоюзов (обновлено, добавлены фото) (фото)".
5. ^ "Ukraine government threatens to seize trade union property". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
6. ^ "Why is Ukraine stripping back workers' rights?". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
7. ^ "Ukrainian trade unions reaffirm their commitment to actively contribute to Ukraine's rebuilding | International Labour Organization". www.ilo.org. 2023-07-28. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
8. ^ "The ETUC expresses solidarity to FPU and to Ukrainian trade unions". ETUC | European Trade Union Confederation. Archived from the original on 2025-04-24. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
9. ^ "Ukrainian labour leaders arrested under pressure from neoliberal parlamentarians - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières". www.europe-solidaire.org. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
10. ^ "Ukraine: ITUC demands dropping of charges against union leader amid attacks on workers' rights". www.ituc-csi.org. 2025-04-29. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
11. ^ "Федерація профспілок заявила про затримання голови: відправили під домашній арешт". LIGA (in Ukrainian). 2025-04-11. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
12. ^ "Будинок профспілок у Києві передали в управління: бюджет отримуватиме 1,6 млн грн щомісяця". LIGA (in Ukrainian). 2025-04-22. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
13. ^ Slukvin, Mykhailo; Martiskova, Monika; Sedlakova, Maria (2020). TRADE UNIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AS CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS WORKING ON THE ISSUES OF LABOUR RIGHTS AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN UKRAINE (PDF). Bratislava: Central European Labour Studies Institute. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
14. ^ "Khara re-elected head of Trade Unions Federation of Ukraine". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 2025-05-03.

Sources

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

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* Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine

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