Anja Weber (trade unionist)

Anja Weber (born January 10, 1961 in Dortmund ) is a German trade unionist . The graduate political scientist has succeeded Andreas Meyer-Lauber as chairwoman of the DGB district of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017 .

Anja Weber studied political science , sociology , European ethnology and economics in Marburg . During her studies she already worked as a typist at the Schultheiss brewery in Berlin , after completing her studies she began working there in customer service and was elected to the works council. Since 1992 she has been active in the food-pleasure-restaurants union (NGG), initially as a youth secretary in Berlin. In 1997 she became head of department at the NGG headquarters in Hamburg. In 2002 she moved to NRW . From 2006 to 2014 she was the trade union secretary of the NRW state district of the NGG. From 2014 to 2017, Guntram Schneider appointed her as a state arbitrator in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs , making her the first woman in the seventy-year history of this office. Weber was u. a. involved in arbitration at Celenus Kliniken , Dura Automotive Systems and Kaiser's Tengelmann . She is the first female chairperson of the DGB district of North Rhine-Westphalia, which had 1.4 million members in 2017, almost a quarter of the DGB's total membership .

Anja Weber is a member of the SPD.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anja Weber elected DGB boss with 98 percent . In: rp-online.de . December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Anja Weber is supposed to lead the DGB in NRW . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . December 8, 2017.
3. ^ Günther M. Wiedemann: Between class struggle and arbitration . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . December 6, 2017.
4. ↑ Anja Weber appointed state arbitrator . In: State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia . October 1, 2014.
5. ↑ Verdi accepts the offer of the state arbitrator . In: derwesten.de . May 20, 2016.
6. ↑ Successful arbitration in the Celenus conflict . In: Westfalenpost . June 24, 2016.
7. ↑ Carsten Menzel: Dura threatens labor dispute after rejection of the arbitrator . In: Westfalenpost . 2nd August 2016.
8. ↑ Rolf Hansmann: Dura workforce agrees to arbitration decision . In: derwesten.de . 29th July 2016.
9. ↑ Ariane Attrodt: Former Chancellor Schröder mediates for one euro . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . 4th November 2016.
10. ↑ DGB membership figures from 2010 . In: DGB . Retrieved December 9, 2017.
11. ↑ Anja Weber: Brief portrait , accessed on February 15, 2018