Workers union
The Workers' Union (CSA) is an association of the CSU in Bavaria . It organizes the workers within the CSU. CSA state chairman is Volker Ullrich . The Christian social workforce corresponds to the Christian-Democratic workforce of the CDU . Its origins go back to 1947, when the “State Secretariat of Workers in the CSU” was founded. In 1953 the “Christian Social Workers / Workers Groups of CSU Bavaria” (CSA) was finally founded.
Tasks, goals and fields of activity
In times of globalization , demographic and technological change, the CSA increasingly sees itself as a think tank for questions of social and labor market policy. It advocates a sustainable social policy and, according to its self-image, is primarily committed to people. The official motto of the CSA is therefore: “Man is the measure of all things”.
The tasks of the CSA include, in particular, maintaining contact with socio-political associations as well as looking after works councils, staff councils and youth representatives. It also tries to contribute to the formation of opinions in labor, social and societal politics through public relations work, information events and publications. Cooperation with churches and trade unions as well as regular exchange with the CDA and the Austrian Workers' Federation (ÖAAB) are also of great importance .
background
The history of the Christian Social Workers is difficult to separate from the history of its parent party. On the one hand, both are based on Christian social doctrine in terms of the history of ideas, and on the other hand, there was great personal overlap between the founding personalities of the CSA and the CSU.
One example of this is the former Prussian Prime Minister and Welfare Minister Adam Stegerwald , who was involved in the Christian trade union movement in the interwar period and was one of the founding members of the CSU after the Second World War. Even before his famous speech at the Essen Congress of the Christian Trade Union in 1920, in which he developed the idea of a "German-democratic-Christian-social party", Lorenz Sedlmayr , another founding member of the CSU, campaigned for Stegerwald's vision of a Christian-oriented people's party, from which the CSU should emerge in Bavaria in 1945.
The Christian social ethics that characterize the CSA comes from both Catholic social teaching and Protestant social ethics. The solidarity and subsidiarity principles are essential components of both.
history
On March 22, 1947, the “1. Bavarian State Conference of Workers in the CSU “Nuremberg. Heinrich Krehle was the first chairman of the newly founded CSA . The recently inaugurated “State Secretariat of Employees in the CSU” was now available to him in order to be able to work in the interests of the employees. After initial successes, however, the currency reform of 1948 worsened the material prerequisites for organizing nationwide. The workforce in the CSU, which in 1947 was one of the four existing working groups of the CSU, lacked the financial resources to be able to spread.
On May 2, 1953, the turning point came and the "employees of the CSU" founded today's Christian Social Workers' Union (CSA) in Munich's Kolping House. The campaign was initiated by Krehle personally and by the then State Social Secretary Hans Stützle and led to success with over 300 old companions and sympathizers. In the first few years, the most important political successes of the CSA were child benefit for the second child and pension improvements. Topics such as the protection of young people at work and the regulation of working hours for civil servants were added later. In 1968, the CSA in Bamberg adopted its first "basic program" in which the family as the focus of society was the most important.
Under the state chairman Fritz Pirkl , the membership of the CSA grew to 16,000 and formed the third largest working group of the CSU. During his tenure, he coined the term CSA as the “social engine” of the CSU. During his time there were also conflicts with the CSU chairman, Franz-Josef-Strauss, who liked to refer to the CSA as a "rosary socialist" due to differences in social policy.
Internal structure
The CSA is currently divided into 27 active local associations, 86 active district associations, 10 district associations and one regional association. This appoints the CSA state advisory board: a body in which representatives of the employee associations and trade unions, the social, welfare, family and handicapped associations as well as representatives of the churches meet with the CSA state board. The current state chairman of the CSA is the member of the Bundestag, Volker Ullrich , Member of the Bundestag .
Web links
swell
- Karin Eiden & Alexander Kriebitz (eds.): 70 years of CSA . CSU regional management, CSA regional office, Munich 2017 ( csu.de [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Conversation with the board of directors of the Austrian Federation of Employees (ÖAAB). In: csu.de. February 24, 2017, accessed November 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Sebastian Fischer: CSA anniversary - Merkel gives an investive wage for her birthday. In: Spiegel Online . July 30, 2007, accessed November 4, 2018 .