April 1. The II International Scientific and Practical Conference “Social and Labor Conflicts in Russia and in the World: Practice of Resolving and its Legislative Support” has taken place at the SPbUHSS.

The Conference is held at the University on the initiative of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, and is unique in the domestic practice by its target and the attracted participants.

The purpose of the Conference is a search for optimal mechanisms of settlement and prevention of the social and labor conflicts by means of development of social partnership.

Have made a speech at opening: Mr. Mikhail Shmakov, Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia; Dr. Valery Chereshnev, Academician, Presidium member of RAS, Doctor of Medicine, Chairman of the Committee on Science of Russian State Duma; Mr. Andrey Travnikov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District; Mr. Alexey Cherkasov, First Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation; Mr. Anatoly Turchak, President of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg; Mr. Sergeus Glovatskas, Senior Specialist for Workers' Activities Bureau of the International Labor Organization in Moscow for Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Prof. Dr. Alexander Zapesotsky, Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Culturology, SPbUHSS Rector, etc.

Reference information:

I International Scientific-Practical Conference “Social and Labor Conflicts in Russian Federation: Identifying, Resolving, Prevention” has taken place at SPbUHSS on October 16-17, 2014. More than 130 participants represented different sides of social partnership: employers, authority, trade unions, International Confederation of Trade Unions, International Labor Organization. Scientists, lawyers, economists discussed topical issues of monitoring, identifying, management and prediction of social-labor conflicts.

SPbUHSS is a center of social-labor conflicts study. The Faculty of Conflictology has been open at University in 2010 at the initiative of Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia and with the support of President Vladimir Putin. Center of Monitoring and Analysis of Social-Labor Conflicts works in the University.

The unique informational system “Social-Labor Conflicts” is developed in this Center. Information on social-labor conflicts now is available on the website http://www.industrialconflicts.ru

Publication date: 26 april 2016