| Serbo-Croatian: Савез синдиката Југославије, Savez sindikata Jugoslavije Slovene: Zveza sindikatov Jugoslavije Macedonian: Сојуз на синдикати на Југославија | |
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| Predecessor | United Federation of Workers' Unions of Yugoslavia |
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| Formation | 25 January 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Ušće Tower, Belgrade |
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Membership (1984) | 6,150,000[1] |
The Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia (SSJ) was a mass organization in SFR Yugoslavia that operated as both a centralized body of trade unions and a socio-political organ of the Yugoslav government. It existed as one of the most powerful organizations within the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia, the popular front of the ruling League of Communists. In addition to assisting in the implementation of the Party's domestic labor programs, the SSJ actively sent labor delegations abroad to other countries, with 190 such delegations having been sent in the year 1959 alone.[2] The organization maintained relations with both Western and Eastern labor unions and represented Yugoslavia at the International Labour Organization.[3]
The SSJ was dissolved and succeeded by numerous smaller organizations across the six Yugoslav republics shortly before the Yugoslav Wars in 1990:
- Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia
- Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia
- Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Montenegro
- Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia
- Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia
- ^ Directory of Yugoslav Officials. 1985. p. 141.
- ^ Zalar, Charles; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1961). Yugoslav Communism: A Critical Study. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 232–234.
- ^ Country reports on economic policy and trade practices: report submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on Finance of the U.S. Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives by the Department of State, in accordance with Section 2202 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1989. p. 594.