Many independent trade unions last week brought a letter from the local Department of Justice, where it was a requirement to re-register in connection with the new law "On Trade Unions", that is to join the existing branch association. Otherwise, the state authorities have promised to initiate a court liquidation of the trade unions. Those who do not belong to the Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan, accumulated in the country more than six hundred, and many of them are waiting for the closure of the court.
We interviewed the chairman of the East Kazakhstan regional trade union "Defence of Labour" Ivan Mikhailovich Bulgakov, which is a membership organization of republican union "Zhanartu". He also brought a letter, and he talks about the fate of the trade union movement in the country after the adoption of the draconian anti-labor law "On Trade Unions".