The Bureau of Industrial Coordination is part of the Parliament of Milk and Honey.
The Bureau of Industrial Coordination is a bureau of the Parliament of Milk and Honey that connects Vekllei’s dispersed industrial bureaus and sets the technical standards they share. The bureau does not operate industries directly — instead it coordinates between autonomous bureaus, helping them share resources, align production schedules and maintain common specifications.
The practical challenge is straightforward: Vekllei’s major industrial centres are spread across islands from Oslola to Kairi, with smaller manufacturing scattered throughout the archipelagos. Without centralised command of industry, the bureau creates the networks that keep these autonomous operations from duplicating effort or working at cross-purposes. The result is a heavily standardised system — Vekllei factories almost exclusively use common specifications for products and production.
This standardisation sits in tension with Vekllei’s commitment to workplace democracy, where many production decisions come from worker assemblies rather than managerial hierarchies. The bureau supports democratic industrial management by training workers in technical decision-making, but the practical demands of modern manufacturing often require faster coordination than assembly deliberation allows. Balancing these competing demands is the bureau’s daily work.
Constituents
- Commonwealth Industrial Coordination Council (CICC or Chick): Coordination of cooperation and resource sharing between industrial bureaus across sectors.
- National Enterprise Commission: Development and training for democratic workplace organisation and decision-making.
- Industrial Democracy Research Centre: Study of cooperative management methods and new forms of workplace organisation.
- Cooperative Development Trust: Technical support for new cooperative enterprises.
- Commonwealth Industrial Congress: Autonomous functionary of the Ministry of Industry with a close working relationship with the Bureau.
Departments
- Department of Industrial Coordination: Facilitates cooperation, resource sharing, and joint projects between Vekllei’s various industrial bureaus.
- Office of Bureau Collaboration
- Office of Resource Circulation
- Office of Joint Ventures
- Office of Industrial Integration
- Department of Democratic Enterprise: Supports and develops models for workplace democracy and worker participation in technical and managerial decision-making.
- Office of Technical Management
- Office of Labour Participation
- Office of Corporate Development
- Department of Industrial Enterprise: Oversees the development and support of cooperative enterprises, labour organisation, and industrial productivity.
- Office of Labour
- Office of Syndicates & Chapels
- Office of Cooperative Enterprise
- Office of Productivity
- Service Branches: Regional bodies responsible for the bureau’s administration across Vekllei’s industrial areas.
- Boreal Industrial Area
- Austral Industrial Area
- Occidental Industrial Area
- Oriental Industrial Area