General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU)
The General Confederation of Trade Unions is an international trade union organization founded 16 April 1992. The GCTU mission is to consolidate the actions of its affiliates to protect the social, labour, professional, economic and other legitimate rights and interests of workers in each state where the GCTU has member organizations, the rights and operating guarantees of trade unions activity, and to help strengthen international labor solidarity.The GCTU currently affiliates 8 national trade union centers in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and 20 industrial trade union internationals with a total membership of approximately 30 million organised workers.
The Union Council - permanent collegial governing body of the GCTU - is located in Moscow, Russian Federation.
The General Confederation of Trade Unions is widely recognised at the interstate level in the Commonwealth of Independent states. It enjoys observer status with the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, and is actively involved in the work of the CIS Economic Council, a number of CIS industrial committees, and other statutory bodies of the Commonwealth.
The GCTU maintains business cooperation with the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, the CIS Executive Committee as well as the Eurasian Commission of the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Russian Federation.
The GCTU cooperates with specialized UN organizations. The International Labour Organization has granted the GCTU a regional consultative status for Europe. The GCTU also enjoys a status with the Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations Department of Public Information and the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
GCTU News
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Viktor Pinsky: "The meeting of the General Confederation of Trade Unions Council in Dushanbe is a landmark event for the entire trade union movement of the Commonwealth of Independent States"
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, July 1, 2026 – Viktor Pinsky, Chairman of the Commission of the Russian State Duma on Regulations and Organisation of State Duma Activities and General Secretary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU), called the meeting of the GCTU Council, held on July 1 in Dushanbe, a landmark event for the trade unions of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Viktor Pinsky Met with Deputies of the Parliament of Tajikistan
June 30, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – The work on developing model labor legislation within the CIS format was discussed during a meeting between Viktor Pinsky, Chairman of the Commission of the Russian State Duma on Regulations and Organisation of State Duma Activities and General Secretary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU), and Makhmadshokh Gulzoda, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, Public Associations, and Information of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan. The meeting, held today in Dushanbe at the Parliament of Tajikistan, was also attended by other deputies of the Tajik Parliament: Orip Amirsoda, Chairman of the Environmental Commission; Naima Solizoda, member of the Commission on Deputy Ethics; Karakhon Chillazoda, Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Tajikistan; and Margarita Usova, Deputy General Secretary of the GCTU.
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Viktor Pinsky met with the Deputy Minister of Labor of Tajikistan
June 30, Dushanbe, Tajikistan - The gradual formation of a common labour market and the regulation of labour migration among the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States were the main topics of a meeting between the Chair of the Commission on Rules and Maintenance of Activity of the State Duma, and the General Secretary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU), and Sharif Norzoda, Deputy Minister of Labour, Migration and Employment of the Republic of Tajikistan.