7 May 2024

Today, the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR wishes to applaud Comrade Chairman Shavkat M. Miriziyoyev for his efforts to give wider powers to the working people of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, particularly by championing the establishment of the All-Union Council for Worker's Control (VsSRK), which is to be a body under the Ministry of Labour, and comprised of members elected by the trade unions.

As a result of this proccess, the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions announces that Comrade Yuriy Mykolayovych Kulik, former chairman of the Council of Trade Unions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, has been elected to serve as Acting Chairman of the All-Union Council for Worker's Control, until such time as the Congress of the trade unions is convened, and elects the permanent Council.

Additionally, preparations are now underway to convene an Extraordinary Congress of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR as soon as possible, in order to elect permanent members to the VsSRK.

- Mikhail Viktorovich Shmakov
Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR.
Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR.
Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Hero of Socialist Labour.