Through an annual general assembly the workers choose and employ a managing director and retain the power to make all the basic decisions of the enterprise (what, how and where to produce and what to do with the profits).
In distributing the powers of government, they could, if they had chosen to do so, have authorized the general assembly to adopt laws independent of all executive action.
But after all the open debates, questions and exposure, it is the security council that will get to choose the candidate that goes before the general assembly for a vote.
However, when the 15-member security council starts informal secret ballots next week to choose a candidate to recommend to the general assembly for election later this year, the results will not be made public.
The election was among the first steps in re-forming an Olympic committee; each of the nearly 200 sports clubs in Iraq had to chose new, Saddam-free leadership; those representatives formed a general assembly; that assembly elected the leadership of the new Iraqi Olympic committee.
The seeds of disaffection were sown when Britain chose not to officially recognise Palestinian statehood in November 2012, after the UN general assembly had approved recognition de facto.
For the UN's first 70 years, the secretary general was chosen behind closed doors by the major powers on the security council, and only then presented to the general assembly for approval.
Loud gavel, general assembly proceedings are off.
Includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic & Social Council resolutions.
A decision on which UK city will be chosen to go ahead with its bid will be made in 2018, while the final decision on the host city is due to be made in September 2019 by the Commonwealth Games general assembly.
