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The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (ACCTU; Russian: Всесоюзный центральный совет профессиональных союзов, VTsSPS) was the national trade union federation of the Soviet Union.

The federation was established in January 1918. In October 1990, it was dissolved, and replaced by the General Confederation of Trade Unions of the USSR.[1]

History

Precursors

In 1905, First All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1906, Second All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1917, Third All-Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

In 1918, Fourth All Russian Conference of Trade Unions was held.

The Federation

In 1945, the World Trade Union Conference took place in London, United Kingdom, organised alongside the British Trades Union Congress and the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Affiliates

Union Founded[2] Left Reason left
Agricultural and Procurement Workers' Union 1899
Automobile Transport Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Aviation and Defence Industry Workers' Union 1957 1977 Split
Aviation Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Aviation Industry Workers' Union 1977
Aviation Workers' Union
Building and Building Materials Workers' Union 1957
Building Materials Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Chemical Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Coal Mining Industry Workers' Union
Communication, Automobile Transport and Highway Workers' Union 1957
Communications Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Construction Workers' Union 1946 1957 Merged
Consumer Co-operatives Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Consumer Goods Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Cultural Workers' Union
Defence Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Defence Industry Workers' Union 1977
Education, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union 1957
Engineering Workers' Union
Food Products Industry Workers' Union
Geological Survey Workers' Union
Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Highway and Hydraulic Engineering Workers' Union 1934 1955 Merged
Local Industry and Municipal Services Workers' Union 1957
Local Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Machine Building Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Medical Workers' Union
Metallurgical Industry Workers' Union 1957
Municipal Services Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Oil and Chemical Industry Workers' Union 1957
Oil Industry Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Power Stations and Electrical Industry Workers' Union
Railway Transport Workers' Union
Sea and River Workers' Union
State Institutions Workers' Union
State Trade and Consumer Co-operative Societies Workers' Union 1957
State Trade and Public Catering Enterprise Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union 1948 1990 Federation dissolved
Timber and Rafting Workers' Union 1948 1953 Merged
Timber, Paper and Woodworkers' Union 1953
Transport and Heavy Machine Building Workers' Union 1957 Merged
Urban and Rural Construction Workers' Union 1946 1956 Merged
Woodworkers' Union 1948 1953 Merged

Presidents

1918: Grigory Zinoviev
1918: Mikhail Tomsky
1929: Alexander Dogadov
1930: Nikolai Shvernik
1944: Vasili Kuznetsov
1953: Nikolai Shvernik
1956: Viktor Grishin
1967: Alexander Shelepin
1976: Alexei Shibaev
1982: Stepan Shalaev
1990: Gennady Yanayev

References

  1. ^ Ashwin, Sarah; Clarke, Simon (2002). Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN 9780230598355.
  2. ^ Directory of Labor Organizations: Europe. Vol. 2. Washington DC: United States Department of Labor. 1965. p. 29.1–29.11.