The Austrian Trade Union Federation or Austrian Federation of Trade Unions ( de: ''Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund'', abbreviated OeGB or ÖGB) is a labour union of employees. It is constituted as an association and is subdivided into seven smaller affiliated

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

s. Each union is traditionally dominated by a certain

political faction A political faction is a group of people with a common political purpose, especially a subgroup of a political party that has interests or opinions different from the rest of the political party. Intragroup conflict between factions can lead to ...

, with the strongest faction in the ÖGB as a whole traditionally being the

social democratic Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

one (Fraktion Sozialdemokratischer GewerkschafterInnen), which is known for its close contacts to Austria's Social Democratic Party (

SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( , SPÖ) is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (, SDAPÖ) and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria () from 1945 unt ...

); chairmen of the ÖGB have often also been influential SPÖ members.*

Affiliated unions

* PRO-GE * Union of Construction and Woodworkers (GBH) * Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers (GPF) * Union of Private Sector Employees, Printing, Journalism, and Paper (GPA-DJP) * Union of Public Services (GÖD) * Vida * Younion

Former affiliates

Presidents

:1945: Johann Böhm :1959: Franz Olah :1963: Anton Benya :1987: Fritz Verzetnitsch :2006: Rudolf Hundstorfer (acting) :2008: Erich Foglar :2018: Wolfgang Katzian

References

External links

OeGB Homepage
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