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Word: profsoyuz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should a worker feel he is not being properly compensated, he can complain to an official of his union called a profsoyuz. Unions are almost like state agencies; indeed the former chief of the KGB, Alexander Shelepin, was the official head of the U.S.S.R. trade union movement for many years. "The goals of management and the profsoyuz are the same here," says Kazimir Kaspirovich, deputy chairman of the professional union at the factory. "We have no major disagreements with management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Making of a Minsk Tractor | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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