At least two branches have submitted the text below for the Unite union policy conference in July 2025. You may find it useful to adapt the text for other labour-movement meetings. 

Conference notes that the Executive Council Statement on Ukraine adopted by Policy Conference 2023 – alongside condemning Russia’s invasion and war and calling for immediate Russian withdrawal – called on the UK government to “seek to strengthen links with Ukrainian trade unions and support their rights to organise freely, and especially recognise their role in building a more just and democratic post-war reconstruction.”

Conference believes that Unite should step up pressure on the Labour government to do so; and that Unite should use its affiliation to the Labour Party, and its representation in Labour Party structures, for that purpose.

Conference also believes that Unite itself should strengthen its own links with Ukrainian trade unions, and provide support to the latter in their campaigning activities as the collective voice of labour in Ukraine – including against the Russian invasion and war, and against the Ukrainian government’s neoliberal / anti-worker policies.

Conference therefore calls for:

– Speakers from the two Ukrainian trade union federations (FPU, Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, and KVPU, Confederation of Free Trades Unions of Ukraine) to be invited to speak and take questions/have discussion at a Unite EC meeting (in person or online).

– Unite at national and regional levels to organise delegations to Ukraine to meet Ukrainian trade unions; and to organise speaking tours in Britain for Ukrainian trade union representatives.

– Unite at national and regional levels to publicise financial appeals launched/promoted by Ukrainian trade unions.

– Unite branches to twin with Ukrainian counterparts, with assistance in twinning being provided by their Unite Regional offices where required.

– Unite to raise the issues facing workers and trade unions in Ukraine in the Labour Party.