Russian IT Union
IT specialist under sanctions in Russia and Belarus

Open letter to Mikhail Mishustin: we don’t have the conditions to build our ecosystem and IT sovereignty

Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, “used the occasion” to speak directly to software developers and IT workers on April 7th, 2022. He said: “Folks – developers, programmers, IT crowd – let’s make our ecosystem, we have everything we need for it! There are elements of this ecosystem that need some improvements. We have to make out own online shop because AppStore and GooglePlay can practically restrict us from downloading apps soon”....

April 19, 2022 · 22 min · author4
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Organize your union

На фоне оттока кадров и сокращения рабочих мест, глава РАЭК предложил создать профсоюз для IT-специалистов. Но такое предложение звучит не впервые, идея создания профсоюза в IT-отрасли звучала и на конференции в Иннополисе в ноябре 2021 года, и чуть ранее в интервью с гендиректором АНО “Россия – страна возможностей”, и даже на Хабре. В общем, предложение правильное и разумное, но как профсоюз, управляемый бизнесом, сможет нормально представлять интересы работников? Ведь бизнесу хочется нанять работника подешевле да с квалификацией повыше, а работник наоборот, хочет зарплату, соответствующую квалификации, ДМС получше да удобное рабочее место....

April 14, 2022 · 2 min · author5, author2
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KGB ban unions

On April 7, 2022, the KGB of the Republic of Belarus recognized the trade union of radio-electronic industry workers as an extremist organization. The REP trade union was founded in 1990, its founders were 93 primary trade union cells. Now it unites more than 2000 employees. In addition, the trade union is a member of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, as well as the international trade union IndustriALL, which unites more than 50 million workers around the world....

April 12, 2022 · 2 min · author6, author2