Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic state.”
Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic state.”