BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 16. This year, the
Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation (ATUC) issued over 38,000
vouchers, enabling more than 76,000 citizens to benefit from
subsidized rest and medical services, ATUC Chairman Sahib Mammadov
said in his report at the Confederation’s 8th congress in Baku,
Trend
reports.
He emphasized that in the context of and subsequent to the
Patriotic War, labor organizations exhibited robust cohesion by
extending assistance to the families of fallen heroes and military
veterans.
“At present, there are 378 minors from 209 martyr households
receiving support from the Confederation and its affiliated
entities,” Mammadov articulated.
At the Congress of Azerbaijan Trade Unions on February 5-6,
1993, AHIK was founded. A voluntary union of interbranch
associations and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, the trade
union defends and supports its members' labor, social, and economic
rights and interests. AHIK links 18,610 unions. Total trade union
membership is 1600000. 26 branch trade unions form AHIK. The Trade
Union Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan was passed on February 24,
1994.
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