Siyazbek Mukashev

Siyazbek Onerbekuly Mukashev (Kazakh: Сиязбек Өнербекұлы Мұқашев, Siiazbek Önerbekūly Mūqaşev; born 7 May 1939) is a retired Kazakh politician who served as the Chairman of Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan from 1992 to 2013.

In 1990, he was appointed as the deputy chairman of the Council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (QRKF).

[2][1] On 23 October 1992, the 4th Plenum of the Federation of Trade Unions was held from which Mukashev was elected as a chairman.

It lobbied the Embek MP group, where under Mukashev proposed and drafted bills such as the Labor Code, bills on state benefits to families with children, on amendments and additions to the law on pensions, on state targeted social assistance, on social protection of citizens affected by nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, employment of the population, on culture.

[3] The QRKF attempted to become a member of the International Trade Union Confederation which was never approved and its bid received criticism from figures such as the president of Labor Confederation of Russia Boris Kravchenko who criticized the labor union for not supporting the striking oil workers in 2011 which led to Zhanaozen massacre that resulted in the deaths of 14 oil workers.