Northern (N): Yugoslavia (NU). Labour and Trades Union

A file containing documents concerning trade union issues in Yugoslavia. Subjects covered in the documents include elections for directorships at industrial concerns in Croatia; an article in the Yugoslav press on industrial action in Yugoslavia; and a meeting between Svetozar Vukmanovi?-Tempo, the Yugoslav trade union president, and Duncan Wilson, the British ambassador in Belgrade. Wilson had noted that the trade unions had relatively little power due to the self-management of factories and the direction of the Yugoslav communist party, but that the movement nonetheless had a significant amount of influence that Vukmanovi?-Tempo was inclined to use. The conversation had covered subjects including a teachers' strike; industrial action in the mining industry; the problems posed by regional pay variations; and the difficulties that well-qualified Yugoslavs encountered in getting good jobs, as managers did not want to employ people who might threaten their positions.