ABSTRACT
Before the events that shaped the new labor side of the RTK, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) had raised another issue in opposition to the government, in the course of which it generated a set of organizational allies whose composition may again help understand something of the state of play in 1993. In early December, the labor side of the RTK went through a reshuffling. Seventy-two representatives of trade unions gathered in Moscow and by secret ballot elected twenty-eight representatives to fill the union side of the trilateral for the 1994 edition of the RTK. FNPR harped on well-worn themes that had been standard since Sotsprof had gotten its three places on the labor side of the 1992-model RTK. The KSP accused the FNPR of “purely political activity” aimed at creating conflict between working people and the government.
