Compilation: Main Interbranch Information Centre;
Publication: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.
Major users: Government, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, federations of Ukraine trade unions, associations of employers and the public.
Strikes and lockouts: The statistics cover:
Minimum threshold: one working day regardless of the number of employees who participated in the strike.
Economic activities: All economic activities, excluding the private sector.
Workers: Employees.
Geographic areas: Whole country.
a) number of strikes and lockouts;
b) number of establishments involved;
c) number of workers involved;
d) duration;
e) amount of time not worked ("time lost");
f) other: volume of lost production, amount paid per hour to workers on strike and source of funding.
Strike: a temporary collective voluntary stoppage of work by employees (absenteeism, failure to fulfil work obligations) of enterprises, departments, organisations for the purpose of settling the collective labour dispute (conflict).
A strike is used as the last resort for settling the collective labour dispute. It is caused by the refusal of the employer or the authorised agency (representative) to meet the demand of employees or the authorised agency, trade union, association of trade union.
Strikes and lockouts: The basic unit of measurement used to identify a strike is the establishment. The resumption of a strike that is interrupted but later begins again, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a new strike.
Establishments: An establishment is specified as an independent economic legal entity which has the right of legal person and is engaged in industrial, research or commercial activity in order to gain profit (income). (Source: Ukraine Law on Enterprises). The number of establishment involved is counted for all types of strikes covered.
Workers involved: The number of workers involved relates only to workers directly involved and is counted as the maximum number of workers that took part during the course of the strike, even if some workers were involved for only part of its duration. Part-time workers are counted as individuals on the same basis as a full-time workers. As well as regular paid employees, the statistics cover temporary or casual workers and seasonal workers.
Duration: The duration is measured in work hours from the first of the first work stoppage to the last day of the last stoppage.
Time not worked ("time lost"): Time not worked is measured in work hours as the product of the number of workers involved and the duration of the strike or as the sum of work-hours lost for those who were on strike.
The shorter working hours of part-time workers are taken into account by converting to full-time equivalents. Overtime is not taken into account in the estimate of time not worked.
a) cause of dispute;
b) outcome of dispute;
c) method of settlement: not applicable;
d) economic activity;
e) occupational group: not applicable;
f) number of establishments involved;
g) number of workers involved;
h) duration;
i) amount of time not worked ("time lost").
Separate information is compiled for strikes beginning during the reference period, those ending during the reference period and those continuing from one reference period to the next.
The statistics are published each quarter.
Since 1997, time not worked has been measured in work hours (man-hours). Previously, it was measured in workdays. In 1993, new indicators were introduced: number of strikes, amount of funds paid to those on strike. The industry classification was extended to full coverage in line with the national classification scheme.
Series available: The following tables are published:
Bibliographic references: The statistics are published in:
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine: Ukraine Statistical Yearbook (annual);
idem: Labour in Ukraine (annual);
idem: Statistical Bulletin of State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (quarterly);
idem: Bulletin of Economic Conjuncture of Ukraine (quarterly).
Methodological information about the statistics is published in Labour in Ukraine.
All data are published and are available on diskette.
Data published by the ILO: The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to strikes: number of strikes, number of workers involved and number of days not worked, by economic activity.
Confidentiality: There are no restrictions on the publication of the data.
Representatives of workers' and employers' organizations were consulted for this purpose.