ABSTRACT
Igor Klochkov demanded social guarantees that decisions on the decontrolling of the remaining administratively set prices be a matter for joint government-trade union agreement and threatened a day of demonstrations on January 17 if the government failed to act. A large literature on labor and trade unionism notes that miners are typically militant, citing the frequent isolation of mining communities, and the solidarity of workers mutually dependent in an industry fraught with physical danger. The Komi action spread, fed by what locals perceived as, delaying tactics by the Russian Trilateral Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations. Another government-labor conflict with dynamics rather different than the set-piece government-Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia confrontations involved Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions (FPAD), the Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions, whose clout had first been manifested in 1991. FPAD was dealing with a myriad of different situations in different airports and locales.
