On Friday, April 22, 2022, the Courier union organized a strike by workers at
Delivery Club in Moscow. During the fourth day of the strike, a demonstration washeld, which the police dispersed and detained several protesters. She laterreleased them without charge, but on the same day she raided the house of thechairman of the union, Kirill Ukraintsev, who is also a well-known anti-fascistand blogger. The police arrested him and charged him according to Article 212paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code. Since then, he has been in pretrial detention(in SIZO) and faces up to five years in prison for "summoning or participating inan unauthorized assembly more than twice within 180 days."HOW TO HELP?1) Send a protest e-mail to the representative bodies of the Russian Federationin Slovakiapress@rusemb.sk, kultura@rusemb.sk, konsulat@rusemb.skPlease add the e-mail of the associations Direct Action and Courier to the hiddencopy:zvazpa@riseup.net, muharatgaijima@gmail.comThe subject of the email is up to you. Just use something like End repressionagainst trade unions, freedom for Kirill Ukraintsev! (in translation: Endrepression against trade unions, freedom for Kirill Ukraintsev!)The text of the e-mail can look, for example, like this (English and Russian):Dear representatives of the Russian Federation in Slovakia,I hereby condemn the attacks against the trade union "Kurier" and express mysolidarity with the struggles of workers in Russia!I demand that all charges against the activist of Kurier union Kirill Ukraintsevare dropped and he is released.I will inform workers in Slovakia about the repression in Russia.Sincerely,- - -Dear representatives of the Russian Federation in Slovakia,I hereby condemn the attacks on the "Kurrier" trade union and express mysolidarity with the struggle of workers in Russia!I need to remove all charges from the activist of the trade union «??????»??????? ????????? and release him.I will inform the workers of Slovakia about repressions in Russia.Sincerely,Please include your name/pseudonym at the end of the email.Slovak translation:Dear representatives of the Russian Federation in Slovakia,I hereby condemn the attacks against the trade union "Courier" and I want toexpress my solidarity with the struggle of the workers in Russia.I demand the cancellation of all charges and the release of the activist of theCourier union Kirill Ukraintsev!I will inform the workers in Slovakia about the repression in Russia.Sincerely,2) Sign the petition for the release of Kirill -https://www.change.org/p/freedom-for-kirill-ukraintsev3) Spread this challenge to people working in courier services.4) Contact us if you are interested in supporting in other non-online ways.Questions regarding the campaign can be sent to unioncourier6@gmail.com.COURIER UNIONS, THEIR ACTIVITIES AND REPRESSIONCourier is an independent trade union of food delivery workers. It was formed in2020 and has had several strikes for the payment of owed wages, the abolition ofunfair fines and an end to the increase in workload. It also calls for normalemployment contracts for delivery drivers.The strike in April was the result of a unilateral decision by Delivery Club(owned by the O2O holding, a joint venture of Sberbank and VKontakte) to changethe way wages are calculated, which led to a twenty percent reduction in thewages of couriers, moreover, at a time when Russia is experiencing a sharpincrease in inflation.The arrest is related to Kirill's call on social networks to mobilize againstlabor rights violations in delivery services and taxi services. As the unionstates: "By removing Kirill, they want to make us stop fighting. ... We ask allfriends disgusted by the oppression of man over man and the alienation of work bycapital to support our organization of precarious workers. ... Couriers are notslaves! Solidarity is our weapon!"According to our anarcho-syndicalist friends from Russia, these repressions are:"a dangerous precedent and the beginning of a new offensive by the authoritiesagainst the workers' movement in Russia with the aim of its complete defeat." themost combative.Kirill had his first hearing on June 25. The court extended his pretrialdetention for another month and later again until September 25.Processed on the basis of information published by the Courier Union on Telegramt.me/courier_fight and on the website https://freeukraintsev.org/en/ (+ videowith English subtitles https://youtu.be/9eVo1ek4XY4) and by the CNT-AIT Francehttp: //cnt-ait.info/2022/06/05/liberte-kirill-ukraintsev/https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Podpor-odbory-Kurier-v-Rusku-celia-represii-zo-strany-rezimu.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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