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Letter from ФНПР, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of #Russia (FNPR) to Vladimir Putin. Affiliated to @ituc, FNPR have now 'suspended' their membership. Up until a week ago, @SharanBurrow has done everything she could to keep them in. 🧵⤵️ 1/ 
Bona fide democratic trade union organisations had to enforce the @ituc leadership to consent to an inquiry on whether or not the values of ФНПР are consistent with the ITUC statutes. Tricky: a 75% majority is needed to suspend an affiliate from the very ITUC membership. 2/
It is by far easier to mobilise pro-Putin forces against their own suspension than to make a clear cut decision that the #Kremlin mouthpiece and #warmonger is unwanted in a global organisation of 332 national workers' and trade union organisations that represent >200m workers. 3/
