Objectives

The Union's objectives are to defend the rights, dignity and employees' interests of the members and in particular to:

1. guarantee workers' rights in the areas of employment, remuneration, living and workplace health and safety conditions
2. fight unemployment and assist unemployed Union members
3. guarantee employees the right to improve their vocational qualifications
4. protect the health, material, social, and cultural interests of its members and their families
5. undertake efforts through social dialogue to harmonise proper enterprise management with workers' interests
6. influence economic and social policies
7. promote democracy and protect universal humane ideas
8. foster an active patriotic attitude
9. act for disabled people and those in need of special care
10. strengthen the family and protect family life
11. cooperate with international organisations in the scope of protection of human and trade union rights and dignity
12. protect culture and education in a broad sense
13. undertake environmental protection initiatives
14. represent workers' interests on the international forums

The Union shall achieve its objectives by:

1. representing its members before employers, the government, the state administration, local government and social organisations and institutions
2. concluding and terminating collective and other labour agreements with employers
3. organising and leading employees' protest actions in cases of violations of workers' rights and in particularly justified cases declaring strike
4. providing legal counsel and intervening in employee-employer conflicts
5. monitoring workplace health and safety conditions and respectation of labour law; undertaking activities provided for by law, when a threat to workers' life and health arises; providing periodical inspection of workplaces
6. creating the following special purpose funds: a strike fund, educational/training funds, a fund to hire experts and an unemployment fund
7. rendering opinions on drafts of laws and on regulations covering the activities of trade unions
8. union training and vocational retraining
9. conducting business activity to obtain resources to carry out Constitutional tasks
10. establishing agencies to carry out Constitutional tasks
11. participation in the activities of the international organisations
12. co-operating with the government, state administration and local governments within legally defined bounds
13. initiating and organising mutual assistance among Union members
14. granting material assistance to Union members
15. participating in creating and operating of pension funds and other forms of insurances
16. endeavouring to guarantee Union members and their families their proper share of benefits from the social and other enterprise-managed funds
17. informing members of Union activities and conducting press and publishing activities
18. co-operating with the health care service to protect the health of workers and their families
19. conducting research on workers' living standards and costs of living
20. supporting initiatives to improve the economy and develop culture, education, science and technological progress
21. combating symptoms of social pathologies
22. conducting cultural and educational activities, creating conditions for leisure time relaxation
23. conducting charity activities