KBSU Takes Trade Union Leaders

Problems of interdepartmental cooperation, labor rights of teachers, the results of the year and current development trends — these and other topics were on the agenda of the All-Russian seminar-meeting of chairmen of primary trade union organizations of employees of higher educational institutions, which takes place these days in the Elbrus region on the basis of educational and scientific complex of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov.

The meeting of the coordinating council of the chairmen of the primary trade union organizations of workers of the universities of the All-Russian Education Trade Union was held with the participation of representatives from 42 regions of the country. The union leaders of the higher education system from Moscow and, as they say, to the very suburbs, gathered at the foot of Elbrus to sum up the results of 2018 and discuss the problems and tasks facing them.
On behalf of the Government of the Republic, they were greeted by the Minister of Education, Science and Youth Affairs of the KBR, Aues Kumykov. He assured that the trade union movement in Kabardino-Balkaria is highly developed, which allows to solve a wide range of problems of workers. He acquainted the meeting with the education system of the republic, drew attention to the positive demographic dynamics, which already has a beneficial effect both on the development of the infrastructure of the education system, and in terms of the demand for pedagogical work. And the new national project «Education» in this is a serious support.

«We will additionally receive from the federal budget for three years (2019–2021) about 2.5 billion rubles for the education system: the construction of new schools and the material equipment of schools and colleges. This year alone we are launching the construction of 55 objects — these are nurseries, gardens, schools and centers of additional education. This, I think, will enable and increase the number of teaching staff by a thousand people. We are now creating a vocational center on the basis of the KBSU, this will give a good number of university professors additional income, they will be engaged in the professional development of teachers and workers in the pre-school education system. For 2019, we will have to upgrade the skills of five thousand teachers,» — said Aues Kumykov.
Sultan Gekkiev, vice rector for educational work and social issues, welcomed the guests on behalf of the KBSU leadership. The general situation in the trade-union sphere of the republic was characterized by the chairman of the Kabardino-Balkaria reskom of the trade union Sergey Karnysh.

Vadim Dudin spoke about the progress of the education unions in his reporting report:
The procedure for the annual indexation of the fund for the remuneration of education workers to the level of inflation was restored. You know that such a position exists in the labor code, and you know that for the past few years the Russian government has “safely” forgotten about this amount and this obligation. The indexation of wages of public sector workers, indicated in the Presidential Decree of 2012, was conducted from January 1, 2018 and is foreseen for 2019 — 2020. It is planned that it will be made from October 1.
There are other achievements, realized thanks to the trade unions, but still there are more problems. This is the absence of basic rates of official salaries of teachers, and the linking of the calculation of wages to the level of the minimum wage. There is a mass of legal conflicts, both at the federal level and at the level of educational institutions. At the expert level, the general situation in the higher education system and specific conflict situations in universities were reviewed at the congress. The members of the coordination council received comprehensive methodological recommendations in the field of protecting the rights of workers and got acquainted with the best experience of the primary trade union organizations of universities. And here it is worth noting that the Kabardino-Balkarian State University is among the foremost.

Over the course of two days, the participants in the congress discussed a wide range of issues of the trade union movement in higher education, determined the tasks of the main activities of the coordinating council of the chairmen of the primary trade union organizations of university workers. The results of the activities of the coordinating council in the reporting year were summed up by the Chairman of the PCB of the Trade Union Magomed Magomedov. And, of course, the meeting participants enjoyed views of the Elbrus region, many for the first time.

«All very beautiful! Kabardino-Balkarian State University met us well, — said the chief specialist of the department of vocational education of the central council of the Trade Union of Education of the Russian Federation Natalia Voskovtsova. — We are very pleased that it turned out to hold a seminar here. I hope the weather will delight us further!»