Comedia (trade Union)
Comedia was a trade union representing print and media workers in Switzerland. The union was founded in December 1998, when the Union of Printing and Paper merged with the Swiss Lithographers' Union, the Employees' Union of the Swiss Book Trade, and the Swiss Union of Journalists. It affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation, and initially had about 17,000 members. Originally, the union was divided into six sectors, but in 2005, it restructured its members into four sectors: graphics, books and media, press and culture, and graphical communication. On 3 December 2010, Comedia merged with the Union of Communication, to form Syndicom Syndicom is a trade union representing communication, IT and media workers in Switzerland. The union was founded on 3 December 2010, when the Union of Communication merged with Comedia. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swiss Trad .... Presidents :1998: Christian Tirefort :2005: Roland Kreuzer and Danièle Lenzin References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Union Of Printing And Paper
The Union of Printing and Paper (german: Gewerkschaft Druck und Papier, GDP; french: Syndicat du livre et du papier) was a trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ... representing most printing industry workers in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1980, when the Swiss Typographers' Union merged with the Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation. The union was led by president Erwin Gerster, and in 1981 he faced competition for re-election from the president of the union's Zurich branch. During the count, the Zurich candidate was suspected of electoral fraud, and a criminal investigation led the union to announce that the election would be re-run. However, before it could do s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Swiss Lithographers' Union
The Swiss Lithographers' Union (german: Schweizerische Lithographenbund, SLB; french: Union Suisse des Lithographes) was a trade union representing printers in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1888 in Winterthur, to represent lithographers and other flat-bed printers, such as copperplate printers and chemographers. It based itself in Bern and in 1893 it affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB). The union came into frequent demarcation disputes with the Swiss Typographers' Union, and was suspended from the SGB from 1925 until 1928 amid a dispute over offset printers; to rejoin, it had to concede that they should join its rival. Despite this, the union grew, by 1954, it had 3,059 members, From 1944 to 1958, the union's central secretary was Friedrich Segessenmann. and by 1979 this had risen to 6,279. In the 1980s, professional boundaries in the industry weakened, and in 1998 it merged with Union of Printing and Paper The Union of Printing and Paper (german: Gewe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Swiss Trade Union Federation
The Swiss Trade Union Federation (, SGB; ; , USS) is the largest national trade union center in Switzerland. History The federation was founded in 1880 and represents 361,000 members in its affiliated unions (2015). The SGB has close ties with the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SPS). Ruth Dreifuss, the former President of the Confederation, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council, was previously an SGB official. Affiliates Current affiliates The following unions are affiliated to the SGB: Former affiliates Presidents Since 1884, the SGB has had the following 27 presidents, one of which was a woman: :1884: Ludwig Witt :1886: Johann Kappes :1886: Ludwig Witt :1888: Albert Spiess :1888: Georg Preiss :1890: Rudolf Morf :1891: Conrad Conzett :1893: Eduard Hungerbühler :1894: Eduard Keel :1896: Lienhard Boksberger :1898: Alois Kessler :1900: Heinrich Schnetzler :1902: Niklaus Bill :1903: Karl Zingg :1909: Emile Ryser :1912: Oskar Schneeberger :1934: Robert Brat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Union Of Communication
The Union of Communication (german: Gewerkschaft Kommunikation, GEKO; french: Syndicat de la communication) was a trade union representing workers in the communication sector in Switzerland. The union was founded on 26 October 1998, when the Union of Swiss Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Personnel merged with the Union of Swiss Postal Employees, the Union of Swiss Telegraph and Telephone Supervisors, the Association of Swiss Air Traffic Control Personnel, the Post Office Keepers' Association and the postal section of the Staff Association of the Federal Administration. It affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation. On formation, the union had 42,575 members, but it struggled following the removal of Swiss Post workers from the civil service, and the emergence of various private parcel carriers. On 1 January 2011, it merged with Comedia, to form Syndicom. Presidents :1998: :2003: Christian Levrat Christian Levrat (born 7 July 1970) is a Swiss politician. He served as the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Syndicom
Syndicom is a trade union representing communication, IT and media workers in Switzerland. The union was founded on 3 December 2010, when the Union of Communication merged with Comedia. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation The Swiss Trade Union Federation (, SGB; ; , USS) is the largest national trade union center in Switzerland. History The federation was founded in 1880 and represents 361,000 members in its affiliated unions (2015). The SGB has close ties with .... On formation, it had 47,000 members, but by 2017, this was down to 35,000. Presidents :2010: Alain Carrupt and Danièle Lenzin :2013: Alain Carrupt :2017: Daniel Münger References External links * {{Authority control Communications trade unions Trade unions in Switzerland Trade unions established in 2010 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Printing Trade Unions
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing as applied to paper was woodblock printing, which appeared in China before 220 AD for cloth printing. However, it would not be applied to paper until the seventh century.Shelagh Vainker in Anne Farrer (ed), "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas", 1990, British Museum publications, Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. History Woodblock printing Woodblock pri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trade Unions In Switzerland
Trade unions in Switzerland have their origins in the 19th Century when the country began to industrialise. Workers' associations first formed in the 1860s which assumed union functions, mutual insurance activities, sponsored candidates for election and campaigned in referendums. In 1873 a number of the associations in the German-speaking areas formed the Workers' Federation (), which represented around 5,000 by the late 1870s and campaigned for legislative reform. In 1880, the Workers' Federation dissolved itself into two separate wings; the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB/USS) and the Social Democratic Party. For the most of the latter half of the 20th century, trade unions enjoyed relatively stable and secure positions within the country's consensus-oriented industrial relations system. However, following the recession of the early 1990s, trade unions came under increasing pressure from employers and the government which promoted the deregulation of labour markets, less bin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trade Unions Established In 1998
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |