Work Collective Councils
“Work collective councils” (Советы трудовых коллективов—STKs) were created throughout the Soviet Union in 1987 with the “Law on State Enterprises” as part of the perestroika reforms. They were intended to foster democratization and increase efficiency in Soviet industry.
When the Supreme Soviet of the Moldovan SSR proposed establishing Moldavian as the official language of the republic, at first with Russian as a coequal official language and later without, activist industrial leaders and workers used the STKs as a forum for discussion of the legislation and exploited the institutional structure of the STKs to take control of Moldovan industry.
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