On 13 July 2017 teachers from different regions of Ukraine picketed the Parliament of Ukraine protesting against restriction of teachers’ social and economic rights and guarantees in the new draft Law on Education. The draft law was on the agenda of the Parliament that day but parliamentarians failed to consider it before the summer holidays and the consideration of the draft law in the second reading is postponed till September.

On 19-21 June 2017, the international Ukrainian-Slovak workshop «Achievements and Challenges of the Education Trade Unions» was held in Uzhhorod City in Ukraine, located near the Ukrainian-Slovak border.

Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine was represented by its President Georgiy Trukhanov and heads of regional organizations. 

April 10, 2017. Trade unions picketed the office of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission. Protesters demanded from the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission to cancel its decision of 28.03.2017 «On establishment of tariffs for transportation and distribution of natural gas», according to which the gas prices for households and business increased.

At the end of November 2016, at the Kiev Plenary Session of Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine (TUESWU), a new Sectoral Agreement with Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine was signed for 2016-2020.

On 1 November 2016, the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine, TUESWU, one of ETUCE’s Ukrainian member organisations, staged the All-Ukrainian protest action in Kiev. The initiative to hold this action was taken by the Kiev city organisation of the education trade union. More than 15,000 education staff all over Ukraine participated in the action.

The system of vocational education and training in Ukraine was on the brink of collapse due to the adoption of the Law of Ukraine on State Budget 2016.

In fact this law restricted the right of young people to choose profession and jeopardise the constitutional right to accessible and free vocational education and training.

On 6 June tens of thousands of trade union members and workers from all over Ukraine gathered in Kyiv for the All-Ukrainian Protest March, pickets and rallies near the Parliament and Government of Ukraine under the slogan «European prices – European wages!»

Almost seven thousand education workers joined the protest action.

On 7 April 2016 one and a half thousand of Ukrainian students took part in the warning rally in the Shevchenko park near the National University of Kyiv. Students stood up to defend the decent future.

The action was coordinated by the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine and supported by the Trade Union of Educational Workers of Ukraine and other sectoral trade unions. Totally trade unions organise more than 1 million students thoughout Ukraine that now are ready to fight for their rights.