OREANDA-NEWS. November 17, 2011. Today, on November 16, Trade Union Organization of OJSC KAMAZ celebrates its 40th anniversary.

The first founding trade union conference of KAMAZ which elected its factory committee was held in Naberezhnye Chelny on November 16, 1971. And already on March 1, 1972, the company issued the first labor contract. The trade union organization was growing while new plants of KAMAZ were being constructed. Under the leadership of Gumer Nuretdinov, the head of the trade union committee of KAMAZ, the labor union organization has become the leader of the trade union movement in the automobile industry for the last 25 years.

Today, the primary trade union organization consists of more than 90% employees of OJSC KAMAZ. The KAMAZ trade union makes every effort to save many thousands of employees of the enterprise and protects their socio-economic and labor interests. The trade union committee pays attention to the issues of wages, timeliness of wage payment and indexation under the labor contract, conditions of work and rest, catering, work of sanatoriums and children`s health camps. Taking part in the work of the management bodies of the joint stock company, the trade union of KAMAZ actively influences the managers’ decisions concerning social and labor relations.