Primary trade union organization of the University of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (until 14.09.2022 – of the Institute for the Training of Scientific Personnel of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) of the Belarusian Trade Union of Education and Science Workers – a structural subdivision of the United Sectoral Trade Union Organization of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Data on the registration of the primary trade union organization date back to 2006. Since October 4, 2022, the Primary Trade Union Organization of the University of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has been registered by decision of the Administration of the Pervomaisky District of Minsk.

The United Sectoral Trade Union Organization of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is an organizational structure of the Belarusian Trade Union of Education and Science Workers and unites primary trade union organizations that have territorial and production commonality, established in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The history of the origin of the trade union of employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus dates back to the 1920s. The predecessor of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus was the Institute of Belarusian Culture, established in 1922. Trade union work among scientists was carried out through the section of scientific workers under the Belarusian Trade Union of Education Workers.

On January 1, 1929, Inbelkult was reorganized into the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. Unfortunately, little information has been preserved about the activities of the trade union organization of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR in the pre-war period.

The first information preserved in the Academy of Sciences about the activities of the trade union organization dates back to 1945. In January of that year, a General Meeting of employees of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR was held, which was attended by 39 scientific and technical workers, and issues regarding the restoration of academic institutes and its trade union organization were considered.

The first post-war minutes are permeated with concern for scientists who returned from the front, for the families of soldiers who remained on the battlefields. Already on January 2, 1946, at a reporting meeting, the work of the trade union organization of the restored institutes was heard, which was recognized as insufficient due to the fact that a collective agreement had not been concluded.

The main focus of the trade union organization’s activities was on issues of remuneration, labor protection and safety, housing and living conditions, health improvement and recreation, work with children, and material support for employees.

Over the past period, the status of the trade union has changed several times: it has gone through the stages of an academic local committee, a group committee, and the united committee of the trade union of employees of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR within the trade union of higher education and scientific institutions; from March 1991 to December 2016 – of the Belarusian Trade Union of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; since December 20, 2016 – of the United Sectoral Trade Union Organization of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus of the Belarusian Trade Union of Education and Science Workers. The United Sectoral Trade Union Organization of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has organizational, economic, and financial independence in the implementation of its statutory goals and objectives.

TRADE UNION THOUGHTS

Work saves a person from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. – Voltaire

A trade union is an organization. And the idea of organization arose among people from the understanding of the fact that a person alone is not able to satisfy and develop all their needs and desires. – Unknown

The trade union will not do things for you or instead of you, it will do things together with you! – Douglas Rafferty

To achieve something, you need to unite!