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“We have agreed with you that by the end of this year trade union organizations will be established in all private companies. This should be done before the end of the year,” Lukashenko said in a meeting with Mikhail Orda, president of the Belarusian Trade Union Federation, on Tuesday. .
He is quoted by the state news agency Belta.
“The position of the state must be clear to everyone,” Lukashenko emphasized.
According to him, “unions should be in all companies, both public and private”, and their employees would decide for themselves.
According to him, the government “will not laugh anymore”, it has seen “how some behaved and headed towards the destruction of the State.
“I want to be a member of a union, I don’t want to, please. But there must be a union in every company, whether public or private,” Lukashenko said.
“However, if some private companies do not form unions at their request before the end of the year, they will be liquidated,” Lukashenko said ultimately.
Belarus has been holding massive protests for three months over the August 9 presidential elections, which were officially announced by Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies consider these elections rigged.
The protesters are demanding the resignation of Lukashenko, the release of political prisoners and new elections.
The real winner of the elections is considered to be Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, a newcomer to politics currently living in Lithuania.
Cichanouskaya said the protests will last “until victory.” He added that the last 90 days had shown that the government “had lost its legitimacy and power.”
Belarus opposition leader S. Cichanouskaya congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday on the victory and expressed hope that they can meet soon.
“The whole world has been watching the elections in the United States, a country with a fully functioning democracy,” Cichanouskaya wrote on the Telegram channel. “It was a real competition of ideas, programs and teams, unlike in Belarus, where votes were simply stolen during the elections.”
According to Cichanouskaya, Biden “will soon meet the correctly elected president of a new free Belarus.” He added that many Belarusians living in the United States voted for Biden.
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