On the WDDW 2009 the Conferederation of Trade Unions of Armenia (HAMK) is launching its "You deserve decent work" campaign directed on raising awareness among labourers about protection and organising in unions to engage in informal labour relations.

It is foreseen to announce the beginning of the campaign on 7 October sending information via SMS what has been agreed already with the biggest national mobile communication operators.

According to the different sources data from 34% up to 69% of the working age Armenians are involved in informal labour relations. The peculiar feature of Armenia is that informal work is spread by the relatives’ ties that cover the cousins of the cousins and relatives of the relatives. The special term is used in the country to characterize such phenomena – the social net. Quite big source of informal work is originating from the refugees from the national conflicts zones. Very big challenge for the country is economic migration, just within 2002-2007 as many as 461 000 inhabitants left Armenia.

There are first results of work with the workers in informal economy, namely – one of the biggest petrol stations chain has been organized as well as the Yerevan jewelry workers, agricultural workers. The ITUC/PERC IE project is being implemented in close coordination with the ILO Migrant workers’ protection and ITUC campaign against forced labour. The migrant workers’ information centre is opened in the HAMK, there is hot line for the forced labour victims.

The government of Armenia is using non-traditional methods to activate the collection of taxes and declaration of the economic activities. There is the lottery of the cash apparatus checks each of which contains the special number. The winning numbers with the serious money prizes are announced on television and internet on air live with participation of the famous people who are the members of the independent commission. Also the Tax inspectorate is paying small amount of money for collecting the cash apparatus checks for the certain sum (for example, a person can receive 10 Euros payment for the checks for the amount of 500 Euros). After many years the inhabitants of Armenia are demanding in mass the cash apparatus checks even for very small purchases. Since the beginning of the action in January 2009 the income to the budget of the country has grown by 60 million Euros.

Today Youth Committee of Council of Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia(CTUA) and young activists of Republican Branch Trade Unions of CTUA organized the following actions under the slogan "You Deserve Decent Work" ("Ti dostoin dostoynogo truda") In the crowded places, at the underground stations young TU activists, having on special T-shirts with the logo of the CTUA, distributed the information leaflets, explaining to people objectives and tasks of the WDDW action. Meanwhile they motivated self-employed street vendors and informal workers at the market of gold and at the markets for farm products. The meetings were organized and held among the employees of:

 "Nairit", the largest chemical plant of Armenia
 TU organization "Armenian Electric Circuits"
 Yerevan Ambulance Station
 Mining and Smelting Institute.

The WDDW posters and leaflets were distributed to members of primary TUs of Armenia through Branch Republican TUs. Interview of 4 members of Youth Committee of CTUA was broadcast twice on the 7th of October at youth program "MaxLiberty" at "Radio Liberty". During the 7th of October the creeping line on TV channel "Shant"(covering the whole territory of Armenia) is congratulating workers of the Republic on behalf of CTUA. Press release with information about WDDW in Armenian, Russian and English was sent to the leading internet newspapers.

Organisation Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia