Secretary General
Secretary General of the General Confederation of Trade Unions: Viktor Vitalyevich Pinsky
Born in 1964 in Lida, Grodno Region, Byelorussian SSR.
Education: Higher, Military Law.
Professional and Political Career:
1982 - 1996: Military Service.
1996 - 2005: Management of a legal firm (Vladivostok).
2001 - 2011: Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai (3rd and 4th convocations). Chairman of the Committee on Regional Policy and Legality.
2005 - 2015: Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Primorsky Krai. Chairman of the Far Eastern Association of Trade Unions. Member of the General Council and Executive Committee of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR).
2015 - 2022: Secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia for Liaison with the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2017 - 2022: Deputy General Secretary of the World Confederation of Labour.
2022 - 2023: Deputy Chairman of the FNPR.
December 2023: Elected General Secretary of the World Confederation of Labour.
2011 – 2016: Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (6th convocation). First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral, and Procedural Legislation.
2016 – 2021: Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (7th convocation). Chairman of the Committee on Regulations and Organization of the State Duma.
2021 – Present: Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (8th convocation). Chairman of the Commission on Regulations and Parliamentary Procedures of the State Duma.
Chairman of the Commission on Legislation and Regulations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.
Member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.
GCTU News
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For trade unions, March 8 is not just a day of spring and renewal.
For trade unions, March 8 is not just a day of spring and renewal.
For trade unions, March 8 is not merely a day of spring and renewal. Above all, it is an opportunity to once again reflect on the role of women in the world of work and in global development as a whole. Today, women perform 55% of the world’s total labor. They work longer hours than men—by 6 to 13 hours per week—and still earn less: on average, women’s wages amount to 66–84% of men’s wages, depending on the country. There is objective evidence that the more a country values women’s labor and the smaller the gender pay gap, the more developed its economy. A special issue is the “invisibility” of women’s domestic and, as experts call it, reproductive labor. This is why trade unions should continue to fight for justice for working women.
I congratulate all women of the CIS, my colleagues in the parliamentary corps, and women in trade unions on International Women’s Day. I wish you justice, decent work, success, and prosperity!
Viktor Pinsky
General Secretary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions, Member of the State Duma
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General Confederation of Trade Unions Proposes Securing Trade Union Rights in Enterprise Bankruptcy
General Confederation of Trade Unions Proposes Securing Trade Union Rights in Enterprise Bankruptcy
The General Confederation of Trade Unions’ (GCTU) proposals are reflected in the draft CIS model law “On Cross-Border Insolvency and Bankruptcy.”
Trade unions must have the right to represent and protect workers’ interests in the bankruptcy of international companies, according to Viktor Pinsky, Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and General Secretary of the GCTU.
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GCTU Launches International Educational Program “Regulation of Labor Relations Based on Social Dialogue Principles”
GCTU Launches International Educational Program “Regulation of Labor Relations Based on Social Dialogue Principles”
The program is designed for specialists and trade union activists involved in collective bargaining at all levels of social partnership. It consists of four modules and will include about two hundred participants from six countries.
The first module—a lecture session—will be held on March 3, 2026. Leading experts from the General Confederation of Trade Unions, educational organizations of four national trade union centers (Belarus, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and Uzbekistan), and Lomonosov Moscow State University will deliver lectures.