Working group for employee issues

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The Working Group for Employee Issues (AfA) is one of the largest working groups within the Social Democratic Party of Germany .

Herbert Wehner , the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group at the time, initiated the establishment in 1973 in order to give the interests of the employees in the large SPD people 's party a sharper profile again. From Wehner comes the quote that the working group for employee issues is "a vital organ of the SPD, at the same time eye, ear and heart chamber of the party ". With its founding, an antipole to the left Jusos should be created, which dealt to a large extent with socialist theory.

Today the AfA itself belongs to the left wing of the party and is particularly close to the union . It sees itself as a “hinge” between the trade unions and the SPD and tries to assert its point of view through internal and non-partisan discussions. Politically interested employees, active trade unionists, works and staff councils , youth and trainee representatives , union shop stewards and representatives of socio-political interest organizations, but also non-SPD members , are involved in the AfA . Their common goal is to create jobs that secure a living and socially secure jobs, to secure the achievements of the welfare state and to face the challenges in the economy and the world of work.

The main goals are work and social justice . In detail: reduction of mass unemployment, creation of new, innovative, socially secure and ecologically compatible jobs and apprenticeships, retention of protection against dismissal, solidarity-financed social systems, safeguarding initial vocational training, safeguarding collective bargaining autonomy, introduction of minimum wages, preventing wage dumping, stopping illegal ones Employment, rapid harmonization of living conditions in East and West and a Europe for workers.

Federal AfA Conference 2006

The organizational structure consists of district associations (or sub-districts), state associations and the federal association. There are also individual groups in companies or for entire industries, be it in the post office and railways, the chemical and metal industries or in the service sector. According to the statutes of the SPD, delegates' conferences with board elections take place every two years. The last ordinary federal conference took place from 27.-29. April 2018 in Nuremberg.

Chairperson

Federal Executive

The following federal executive committee was elected at the 2018 federal conference:

Honorary Chairman
Chairman
vice-chairman
  • Annegret Hansen (Deputy AfA State Chairperson Berlin)
  • Kornelia Keune (Deputy AfA state chairman Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Wolfgang Lorenz (Deputy AfA State Chairman North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Udo Lutz (AfA state chairman Baden-Württemberg)
  • Uwe Schmidt (Deputy Deputy Deputy Chairman of the State of Bremen)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thilo Scholle, Jan Schwarz: "Whose world is the world?" History of the Jusos . 2nd Edition. JHW Dietz Nachf. , Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-8012-0564-5 , p. 161 .
  2. ↑ Timo Grunden, Maximilian Janetzki, Julian Salandi: The SPD - Anamnesis of a party . Ed .: Karl-Rudolf Korte . 1st edition. Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8329-5362-1 , pp. 59 .