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

UnionFounded[2]LeftReason left
Agricultural and Procurement Workers' Union1899
Automobile Transport Workers' Union1957Merged
Aviation and Defence Industry Workers' Union19571977Split
Aviation Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Aviation Industry Workers' Union1977
Aviation Workers' Union
Building and Building Materials Workers' Union1957
Building Materials Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Chemical Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Coal Mining Industry Workers' Union
Communication, Automobile Transport and Highway Workers' Union1957
Communications Workers' Union1957Merged
Construction Workers' Union19461957Merged
Consumer Co-operatives Workers' Union1957Merged
Consumer Goods Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Cultural Workers' Union
Defence Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Defence Industry Workers' Union1977
Education, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union1957
Engineering Workers' Union
Food Products Industry Workers' Union
Geological Survey Workers' Union
Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions Workers' Union1957Merged
Highway and Hydraulic Engineering Workers' Union19341955Merged
Local Industry and Municipal Services Workers' Union1957
Local Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Machine Building Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
Medical Workers' Union
Metallurgical Industry Workers' Union1957
Municipal Services Workers' Union1957Merged
Oil and Chemical Industry Workers' Union1957
Oil Industry Workers' Union1957Merged
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' Union1957
State Trade and Public Catering Enterprise Workers' Union1957Merged
Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union19481990Federation dissolved
Timber and Rafting Workers' Union19481953Merged
Timber, Paper and Woodworkers' Union1953
Transport and Heavy Machine Building Workers' Union1957Merged
Urban and Rural Construction Workers' Union19461956Merged
Woodworkers' Union19481953Merged

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.
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