On the Activities of the Primary Trade Union Committee

The Primary Trade Union Committee protects the social, economic, and legal interests of its members in their professional activities.

The Primary Trade Union Committee of the Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service (SamISI PTUC) consists of faculty members, doctoral students, administrative and technical staff, as well as pensioners who have worked at the institute for many years.

Before making decisions related to the interests of employees, the institute administration works jointly with the Trade Union Committee. The administration considers the proposals of the Trade Union Committee in a timely manner and, in matters related to labor relations, institutional activities, and other social and political issues, provides the necessary information to the Trade Union Committee.

For Employees Who Are Members of the Primary Trade Union Committee:

• ensuring the observance of the constitutional rights of trade union members to work, freely choose their job and profession, be provided with fair working conditions, and be protected against unemployment, regardless of nationality, gender, age, or religious beliefs;
• increasing leisure time, which serves as a means of restoring a person’s spiritual and physical strength, and ensuring its rational use;
• ensuring compliance with labor legislation and with laws, regulations, and standards on occupational safety and environmental protection;
• creating conditions and allocating necessary resources for health improvement and wellness activities;
• concluding collective agreements and contracts in order to strengthen social partnership, as well as exercising control over their implementation;
• cooperating with state authorities and public organizations to ensure the adoption of laws and other regulatory documents aimed at protecting the labor, socio-economic, and moral rights and freedoms of trade union members, maintaining stability, solidarity, and social harmony;
• introducing a socially fair system of remuneration for labor;
• striving to improve the qualifications of trade union members and ensure their professional retraining in accordance with the level of production development.

Rights and Responsibilities of Trade Union Members

• membership in the trade union is voluntary. An employee who recognizes the Trade Union Charter, complies with its requirements, and regularly pays membership dues may become a trade union member;
• receiving legal assistance and protection from the trade union in matters related to labor relations before state, judicial, and economic authorities, regardless of the form of ownership;
• the right to elect and be elected to trade union bodies;
• participating in trade union events, freely expressing opinions, and personally taking part in meetings, assemblies, and conferences where issues related to their activities and conduct are considered;
• submitting appeals to higher trade union committees;
• receiving vouchers at preferential rates for treatment and recreation at trade union health resorts, sanatoriums, preventive sanatoriums, recreation centers, and children’s health camps.

Decisions Considered by the Trade Union Committee in Coordination with the Institute Administration

In coordination with the institute administration, the Trade Union Committee considers the following decisions:

• improving working conditions, occupational safety, and labor protection;
• ensuring employment of institute employees and guaranteeing social benefits for them;
• encouraging and rewarding employees and students;
• jointly adopting agreed decisions on other socio-economic issues within the institute’s authority;
• ensuring the provision of preferential vouchers for employees to receive treatment at the institute’s preventive health facility;
• allocating preferential vouchers for professors, teaching staff, and employees to take rest and recreation at the “Bo‘stonliq” sports and wellness complex.

Activities Carried Out by the Primary Trade Union Committee

During its activities, the Primary Trade Union Committee regularly reviews the situation of low-income employees and students of the institute. In coordination with the institute administration, financial incentives are provided to them. In addition, with recommendations from the dean’s offices, the Trade Union Committee provides financial assistance to students from low-income families.

Activities Monitored by the Primary Trade Union Committee to Ensure Social Protection of Employees

• social protection of professors, teaching staff, and employees;
• observance of labor discipline;
• ensuring occupational safety and appropriate working conditions;
• monitoring the payment of salaries to professors, teaching staff, and employees, as well as the correct deduction of income tax from wages;
• timely payment of salaries and advance payments;
• preparation for the autumn–winter season;
• prevention of unjustified expulsion of students from the institute;
• quarterly implementation of the collective agreement;
• organizing medical examinations for professors, teaching staff, and employees.

In order to ensure compliance with labor discipline, the Primary Trade Union Committee conducts explanatory and awareness-raising activities jointly with committee activists and reviews arising issues. Serious cases are discussed at meetings of the PTUC Council, and recommendations are submitted to the rectorate.

Throughout the year, the PTUC continuously monitors occupational safety and annually organizes medical examinations for professors, teaching staff, and employees in order to improve their working conditions. Based on the results of medical examinations, financial assistance is provided to some professors and employees to cover the cost of medicines.

In addition, in coordination with the institute administration, the institute’s medical unit is regularly supplied with necessary medicines to provide first aid to professors, teaching staff, and employees when medical assistance is required, regardless of whether the condition is work-related. The activities of doctors and nurses at the medical unit are also monitored. The committee also carries out activities aimed at restoring and maintaining students’ health.

The timely payment of monthly salaries and advance payments to professors, teaching staff, and employees is strictly monitored.

The Primary Trade Union Committee (PTUC) allocates preferential vouchers to professors, teaching staff, and employees for sanatorium treatment and recreation during their annual leave and for health recovery.

The PTUC continuously monitors the catering facilities operating within the institute, including the sanitary conditions of cafeterias, the quality of food, and food prices.

Taking into account the current emphasis on moral and educational activities, the PTUC, in cooperation with the Department of Spirituality and Enlightenment, carries out awareness-raising activities aimed at supporting the policies pursued by the country’s leadership and preserving the historical heritage and architectural monuments passed down by our ancestors.

The PTUC develops and organizes plans for festive events on all nationally designated holidays.

The organization of New Year’s gifts for professors, teaching staff, and employees of the institute is ensured.

Professors, teaching staff, and employees who reach the milestone ages of 55, 60, 70, and 80 are ceremonially honored and awarded in front of the collective.

Every year, in commemoration of 9 May – Day of Remembrance and Honor, financial incentives are provided to institute professors, teaching staff, and employees who are veterans of the Second World War, internationalist soldiers, home-front labor veterans, and employees equated to them. A festive gathering is also organized in their honor.