We, RAS workers ...

The chief researcher at the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Samokhin, shares his impressions of the V Cail Congress.

We, people ...
Klimovsky men, that is.

A.P. Chekhov

Denis Grigoryev, the character of the Chekhov story “The attacker”, due to his lack of education, did not imagine what the consequences of his actions to unscrew the nuts on the paths could be. Unlike Denis Grigoryev, the delegates of the V Congress of the Trade Union of RAS Workers, gathered in the conference hall of the Uzkoye Academic Hotel, are all completely literate and educated, but sometimes look as inadequate as the Chekhov character.

The point, apparently, is not only that the meeting was held on a very hot summer day in the conference room, where there were no air conditioners. Delegates, including those sitting on the presidium, were forced to actively dismiss mandates, decisions and other documents from annoying reality. One or two portable fans were not able to influence the suffocating atmosphere that reigned in the hall, in which trade union materials that were fed and fluttered by an unfriendly flock. The brains melted both from the heat and from the phantasmagorism of what was happening. The characters who are obliged to take care of normal working conditions have not only taken care of them, but even as if not at all noticed this abnormality.

The beginning of the work of the congress was preceded by the last meeting of the Council of RA RAS, elected at the previous congress in 2006 at this meeting the day before the congress, the chairman of the Council V.F. Vdovin for the first time announced that because of his employment, he would take self -settings and would not run for the post of head of the RA RAS.

Such a statement for many gathered was a complete surprise and caused a certain excitement and even confusion. How will we be without Widow? After all, we were punished to vote for him, is it possible to somehow not accept this self-setting or to persuade Widow to remove the self-release? They tried to persuade Vdovin, but he was adamant. Then, in addition to the only remaining candidate V.P. Kalinushkin (previously nominated S.A. Okulov withdrew his candidacy for health reasons - he ended up in the hospital after a police detention at the May rally in St. Petersburg) began to nominate other candidates. The newly proposed candidate immediately took self -setting up, and V.P. Kalinushkin emphasized that he would run only if the new charter of the trade union is adopted. There were no longer two positions in the altered charter - the President of the RAS and the Chairman of the Council of the RAS RAS, instead of which only one position appeared - “Chairman of the RA RAS”. Opponents of the new charter disapprovingly responded to this condition by V.P. Kalinushkina, which already clearly portended the future problems in the work of the congress.

The characteristic, in my opinion, the moment of this last meeting of the Council of the 2006 sample was the fact that the most extraordinary aspect of Winovin’s statement remained outside the attention and discussion of the Council. Why was this statement made literally on the very last day before the congress? What are the reasons for such a delay, which clearly demonstrates not a very respectful and not very responsible attitude to the trade union organization by its leader? There are no direct answers to these elementary questions, but some clarity in them has actually introduced the events that were playing at the congress.

On the first day of the congress on July 1, the delegates listened to reports by the Chairman of the Council, the President and the Chairman of the Control and Revision Commission to interspersed with welcoming performances of the guests. According to the mandate commission, the age composition of the 193 selected delegates of the congress was as follows: less than 40 years-20, 40-50 years-29, 50-60 years-51, 60-70 years-66, older than 70 years-27. Of course, with age, some people come to experience and wisdom, but only senile diseases and weaknesses are much more often ...

In the report of President T.L. Roslyakova was heard by the words that not all council commissions were active, but the specific “finished” commissions and their leaders were not named. The reason for this behavior is by no means forgetfulness, but a simple “general line” - not to pay attention to unpleasant moments and not to answer objectionable questions and critical comments.

T.L. Roslyakova did not respond to the concerns of her activities in the “Trinity version” No. 12 (81) and the trade union newspaper Scientific Community No. 5 and 6, which said, in particular, about the absence of the transcript of the previous IV congress, and about the problem of commissions, and the disruption of the pre -trial discussion The trade union of the situation.

About the absence of a transcript, about the disruption of the pre -trial discussion, about the personnel crisis in the trade union and that on these points the activities of the leading structures of the trade union cannot be recognized as satisfactory, I spoke in my speech on the first day of the congress, noting the need now to conduct a thorough discussion of all these issues after the congress. V.F. Vdovin considered it necessary to object only on my statement about the personnel crisis, and T.L. Roslyakov after him and, as it were, in connection with my performance, also began to say something, but her words did not concern the problems I had identified. Such a reaction of the President of the Trade Union in its content is not much different from that classic “Chavo?”, With the help of which Denis Grigoriev, which was mentioned above, initially tried to answer the questions addressed to him.

The performance with the proposal of an unsatisfactory assessment also sounded in the performance of V. Potato-on, but most of the congress voted for the assessment of “satisfactory”. It was probably affected by insufficient awareness of the real state of affairs due to the lack of pre-trial discussion, and relaxing heat, and a number of other factors that deserve a separate discussion. One way or another, but the delegates of the congress at this stage did not realize or did not want to take into account the obvious fact that T.L. Roslyakova and those who support her weaken the trade union organization - just as the unscrewing of the nuts for his own needs Denis Grigoryev and his fellow villagers weakened the railway. The consequences of this position of delegates were not long in coming.

The danger generated by this “unscrupulousness” and an attentive attitude towards it was almost realized in the full -scale organizational disaster already the next, second day of the congress, when discussing the project of the new charter. Ten minutes before the meeting began at the authorized commission, which worked on the charter project for more than a month and examined all previously submitted proposals, another “supername” project of the charter with the accompanying signatures of the “group of comrades” from 14 delegates was received.

Representatives and supporters of this group began to very actively demand the discussion of their project and in no case accept the draft charter commission as a basis. At the same time, words were often repeated about the need to comply with democratic procedures, about the inadmissibility of taking as a basis without discussion, as this means accepting as a whole, and other similar arguments that have a noticeable effect on the audience. As a result of this, a rather long continuous impact, the draft charter commission was not taken as a basis. The operation to “unscrew the nuts”, which designated itself with a complacency vote on the first day of the congress for a “satisfactory” assessment of the work, moved to the open phase and reached its climax.

However, after this apogei immediately began to emerge for a dead end for the further holding of such a line aimed at disrupting the adoption of a new charter, abolishing the position of president. The next inability of the audience to take on the basis of any project of the charter, which was further jeopardized, has already threatened the entire work of the congress. Recall that the charter adopted at the previous congress in 2006 was still not registered.

The awareness of this new threat began to gradually change the mood of the audience, which was also facilitated by the performances of several delegates. I emphasized, in particular, that so later the emergence of the “supernova” project of the charter is not someone’s random whim, but a continuation of the same actions, as a result of which the pre-time discussion of the state of affairs in our trade union was disrupted. This time, no objections to my words followed.

As a result, the overwhelming majority of votes was decided to re -vote on the issue of accepting the charter commission on the basis of the project. In the same majority, this project of the charter was then adopted as a basis. Further discussion of amendments was already more calm. However, almost four hours, or more than six hundred human hours, was “unscrewed” from normal work and wasted to overcome the attempts taken by the “group of comrades” to disrupt the adoption of a new charter even at the cost of disruption of the congress.

As a result of this “unscruption”, a discussion of one of the main congress documents “On the main areas of activity and the tasks of the trade union for the period until 2016” It was crumpled, and its final acceptance was postponed “for later”, after the congress.

The last day of the congress, dedicated to the election of the Chairman of the Trade Union, the Central Council and the Control and Aviation Commission of the Trade Union, was also not devoid of drama. When discussing candidates previously nominated by V.P. Kalinushkina and Gn. Chucheva, proposed to the post of chairman of the trade union immediately before the elections, spoke about the charisma of candidates, the ease of communication with academics and other things, not always really taking into account the current situation. After hearing the candidates themselves and their answers to questions, as a result of a closed vote, V.P. Kalinushkin received 23 votes more than G.N. Chuchva, and was elected chairman of the trade union. Such a result to some extent was due to the fact that G.N. Chuchieva took part in the actions of the “group of comrades” who put the work of the congress on the brink of a breakdown.

Increased tension was also felt when choosing a central advice. The candidates proposed from regional organizations did not initially cause doubts, but it suddenly turned out that two competing candidates from Tomsk representing their documents were drawn up not at the regional level, but in primary organizations. The collective mind decided not to delve into the reasons for such an oversight from the organizers of the congress, inviting competitors to understand Tomsk, and now the congress delegates to vote simply for one empty place allocated by Tomsk.

The discussion also arose according to the list of candidates in the CSS, proposed by the previous composition of the Council and adjusted for obvious reasons the newly elected chairman of the trade union. Some delegates supporting or included in the “group of comrades” began to talk about “honorary members” and actively advocate for the election of “respected people”, “standing at the origins”, as if not noting or not understanding the real significance of the results of their current activity. Thus, these delegates were actually likened to party leaders who, in the 70s of the last century, sought to decorate the uniform of L.I. Brezhneva with the screwing to him the next golden star. It is obvious that such a “screwing” in the scale of its consequences can far surpass Denis Grigoryev’s unscrupulous actions with rail nuts!

Together with the repetition of the praises in the speeches of these delegates, the idea was also carried out that there was no replacement for such “respected” - in complete contradiction with the words of V.F. Widow about the absence of a personnel crisis. However, V.F. Widow was no longer at the congress on this day.

As a result, beyond the framework of the Care discussions, there are many unresolved issues related to both the internal state of the trade union and its interaction with the outside world. Defects of this interaction were once again manifested in the materials of the media about the trade union congress and his concerns for the “poor academics” (see www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2011/07/01/865107.html and the “Genesis ...” forum ” www.scientific.ru/dforum/scilife/1310105218 ). In such situations, preventive measures are needed, and a quick reaction to already incident, which, as a rule, does not happen.

For intra -professional cases, among other things, answers to questions about why T.L. Roslyakova went to France and where is the report on this trip, why did the pre -time discussion not took place, why was the work of the V Congress almost tore off and when, finally, the transcript of the meetings of the previous IV congress will appear in the public domain? Note that the audio files of meetings of the V Congress appeared on the trade union page of the site www.ras.ru already three days after the end of its work, which may be a sign of future positive changes.

As a separate literary and cultural event, it would be worth considering why the package of documents of the congress distributed by delegates included such a life-loving “trade union ditties”:

I was at the trade union committee
I performed a lot.
In the crush to whom she gave
I did not find out.

Fold my loving me,
He abandoned me, poor.
Farewell to farewell
Spirochet is pale.

We sang ditties to you
We could still
We could still
Yes, it hurts the Glotalyshch.

Here, no comparisons with the frozen Denis Grigoryev will help - the Spirit of Sharikov, touched by the beginnings of political education and the “dog’s heart” in front of a dumbfounded audience, is already hovering here.

Of course, in comparison with the Sharikovsky, trade union ditties proposed by the delegates of the congress are much more democratic in their orientation, but it was unlikely that they should have copied with the charter and other trade union documents for this. The fact of the appearance of “trade union ditties” in this context, whatever it is caused, very expressively characterizes the trade union component of the scientific community presented at the congress. True, it did not reach the choral singing of these ditties, but there was no public reaction from delegates to the investment of this product in a package of congress documents. One word is the intelligentsia! A well -known part of the whole nation, that is.

If someone thinks that all of the above does not concern him in any way, let him remember last year’s smoky and burning summer in Moscow, in the Moscow Region and other regions of Russia, where people burned and people died. Citizens of Russia received this “gift” not only from possible global warming, but also from the actions of those who “unscrewed nuts” from the forest code, sharply reducing the number of foresters. And about the “gift”, which was received on July 10, 2011, passengers of the D/E “Bulgaria”, is now not easy to resemble.

Do not leave your attention to those who are capable of “unscrewing the nuts” or to screwing something where this should not be at all!