The All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions set up first Ukrainian trade union in the country

The Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie Związków Zawodowych (OPZZ), or the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions, member of  European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), helped establish in 2016 a trade union for Ukrainian workers in Poland.

With an estimated 1 million Ukrainian migrants in Poland at the time, local trade unionists cooperated in setting up the new Ukrainian Workers’ Trade Union, part of the Trudova Solidarnist movement, based in Warsaw.

The trade union helps protect Ukrainian workers by ensuring that the rules of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the national minimum labour standards are applied, also combating undeclared work and social dumping in Poland.

In cooperation with Polish NGOs supporting migrant workers, the trade union also provides information and advice to migrant workers whose working rights may have been violated.