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Union Of Municipal And State Workers
The Union of Municipal and State Workers (german: Verband der Gemeinde- und Staatsarbeiter, VGS) was a trade union representing public sector workers in Germany. History In September 1896, gas workers in Berlin went on strike in opposition to having to work for 18 hours on Sundays. Bruno Poersch, leader of the local union of saddlers, supported the strike, and helped found a union to represent them. This was officially established on 4 October, under the name the Union of Gas, Wood, Coal, and Other Workers, and by the end of the year, it had launched a journal. Poersch aimed to develop the union into one representing municipal workers, and so in 1897, the coal and wood workers were transferred to the German Transport Workers' Union, and the union became the Association of Gas and Other Municipal Workers, recruiting water, sewage, lighting, market and slaughterhouse workers, as well as inspectors of gas works. Section were established for each industry, and in 1899, the union wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Union Of Public Sector And Transport Workers
The General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers (german: Gesamtverband der Arbeitnehmer der öffentlichen Betriebe und des Personen- und Warenverkehrs, GV) was a trade union representing workers in various industries in Germany. History Formation The German Transport Workers' Union and the Union of Municipal and State Workers were both affiliates of the General German Trade Union Confederation (ADGB), but the two frequently came into dispute as to which union should represent groups of workers, such as tram workers who were employed by local municipalities. Oswald Schumann, of the transport workers' union, believed that the best resolution to these disputes was for the two unions to merge, and in 1925 he initiated discussions between the two unions, and also the United Union of German Railway Workers. By 1928, discussions were well advanced, but the railway workers' union was concerned that a new union would be dominated by the municipal and state workers, and withdre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General German Trade Union Confederation
The General German Trade Union Federation (german: Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, ADGB) was a confederation of German trade unions in Germany founded during the Weimar Republic. It was founded in 1919 and was initially powerful enough to organize a general strike in 1920 against a right-wing coup d'état. After the 1929 Wall Street crash, the ensuing global financial crisis caused widespread unemployment. The ADGB suffered a dramatic loss of membership, both from unemployment and political squabbles. By the time the Nazis seized control of the government, the ADGB's leadership had distanced itself from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was openly cooperating with Nazis in an attempt to keep the organization alive. Nonetheless, on May 2, 1933, the SA and SS stormed the offices of the ADGB and its member trade unions, seized their assets and arrested their leaders, crushing the organization. History The ADGB was founded on July 5, 1919 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General German Civil Service Federation
The General German Civil Service Federation (german: Allgemeiner Deutscher Beamtenbund, ADB) was a trade union representing civil servants in Germany. In 1922, the German Civil Service Federation (DBB) opposed a strike by railway workers. In protest, the federation's more left-wing affiliates left and on 8 June founded the "General German Civil Service Federation". The new federation soon negotiated a partnership agreement with the General German Trade Union Federation, and the AfA-Bund. It also worked closely with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), but because some SPD supporters remained part of the DBB, the SPD only recognised the new federation in 1930. The federation was led by Albert Falkenberg and published the journal ''Mitteilungsblatt der Gewerkschaflichen Beamtenzentrale''. From 1925, it was affiliated to the International Federation of Civil Servants. Membership of the federation was initially 350,000 but, due to reductions of the size of the German civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Secretariat Of The Workers In Public Services
Public Services International (PSI) is the global union federation for workers in public services, including those who work in social services, health care, municipal services, central government and public utilities. , PSI has 700 affiliated trade unions from 154 countries representing over 30 million workers. History In March 1907, the executive of the German Union of Municipal and State Workers, based in Berlin, issued a call to "workers employed in municipal and state undertakings, in power stations, in gas and waterworks, in all countries" to attend an international conference in August 1907, in Stuttgart. Four Danes, two Dutchmen, eight Germans, a Hungarian, a Swede and a Swiss met in the Stuttgart trade union building for the First Congress of Public Services International, representing 44,479 workers, and they founded the International Secretariat of the Workers in Public Services. This grew rapidly, and by 1913 represented more than 100,000 workers, enabling a part-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
German Transport Workers' Union
The German Transport Workers' Union (german: Deutsche Transportarbeiter-Verband, DTV) was a trade union representing transport workers in Germany. The union was founded in 1897 as the Association of Commercial, Transport and Communication Workers, and it affiliated to the General Commission of German Trade Unions. It grew rapidly, with the German Railway Workers' Union joining in 1908, and the Union of Dockers of Germany and the Central Union of Sailors of Germany both joining in 1910, taking membership to 230,000 by 1913. Although the Railway Workers disaffiliated in 1916, as the German Railway Union, the DTV embarked on a series of further mergers: with the German Porters' Union in 1919, the Central Union of German Post and Telegraph Staff in 1921, and the Union of Domestic Workers of Germany in 1923. Membership peaked at 582,000 in 1922. After World War I, it affiliated to the new General German Trade Union Confederation. In 1923, it shortened its name to become the Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Mohs
Albin Mohs (1867 – 1925) was a German trade union leader. Mohs was born on 16 May 1867 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. He became a woodturner, and joined the Union of Woodturners of Germany. From 1889, he chaired its Leipzig branch. In 1893, the Woodturners merged with several other unions, to form the German Woodworkers' Union. He opposed this, and soon afterwards lost his job. He found work as a journalist on the ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'', and also served as president of the Leipzig trades council. In 1898, Mohs moved to Berlin, where he helped form a union representing butchers. From 1900, he was the editor of the union newspaper, ''Fleischer'', then in 1902, he began working full-time in the office of the Union of Municipal and State Workers (VGS). The union's membership among gas workers had fallen dramatically, but Mohs was able to reverse this. He then spent the first half of 1903 editing the union's newspaper, and in April was appointed as one of five members o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Gardeners And Nursery Workers
The Union of Gardeners and Nursery Workers (german: Verband der Gärtner und Gärtnereiarbeiter) was a trade union representing gardeners, horticultural workers, and flower arrangers in Germany. The union was founded in 1890 as the General German Gardeners' Union, a social democratic union, based in Berlin. In 1904, it absorbed the non-affiliated German Gardeners' Union. It was a founding affiliate of the General German Trade Union Confederation in 1919, but remained small, with only 10,518 members in 1928. Despite this, such prominent figures as Otto Albrecht, Wilhelm Jannson, and Georg Schmidt, all entered trade unionism through the association. The union established a library of 2,660 books relating to gardening, and published the journal, ''Gärtnereifachblatt''. At the start of 1930, it merged with the German Transport Workers' Union, the Union of Municipal and State Workers, and the Union of German Professional Firefighters, to form the General Union of Public Sector a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Müntner
Fritz Müntner (6 November 1870 – 31 March 1934) was a German trade union leader. Born in Wriezen, Müntner completed an apprenticeship as a saddler and travelled extensively in his journeyman years, before settling in Berlin in 1894. He joined the Union of Saddlers of Germany and also the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1902, he began working full-time for the union, running its health insurance scheme in Berlin. In 1905/06, he served as the SPD secretary in Rixdorf. Müntner became known for his strong administrative skills, and in 1906 was elected as national treasurer of his union. He actively supported its merger into the Union of Saddlers and Portfolio Makers in 1909, and then became the editor of the new union's journal, ''Sattler- und Portefeuiller-Zeitung''. However, he felt that the union was being badly run and resigned in 1911. He found work as the Leipzig district leader of the Union of Municipal and State Workers, where he soon overca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Sector Trade Unions
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin ''publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word ' populace', and in general denotes some mass populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions In Germany
Trade unions in Germany have a history reaching back to the German revolution in 1848, and still play an important role in the German economy and society. The most important labor organization is the German Confederation of Trade Unions (', or ''DGB''), which is the umbrella association of eight single trade unions for individual economic sectors, representing more than 6 million people . The largest single trade union is the IG Metall, which organizes about 2.3 million members in metal (including automobile and machine building), electronics, steel, textile, wood and synthetics industries. In 2022, half of all German workers were covered by collective bargaining agreements. In Germany, unions and employer associations bargain at the industry-region level. These large-scale agreements have broad coverage and lead to considerable standardization in wages and employment conditions across the country. Some bargaining occurs at the firm level. Current Situation The German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
