This article deals with election to the work councils in 1945 and 1947. Work councils represented one of the pillars of the newly established corporate democracy, and, in the process of selecting the worker´s representatives, political part membership of the candidates should not have played any role. In few years´time, however, the political aspect became an increasingly factor, partyculary in 1947. The article focuses primarily on these elections as the political struggle over these work councils intensified during them and their course was disturbed by the resistance of the workers who did not elect their delegates in many places or in the repeated elections.