Beat Jost

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Beat Jost (born September 25, 1954 in Obergesteln ) is a Swiss trade unionist ( Unia ), journalist and Valais politician ( SP ).

Life

Beat Jost grew up as the second of four children of the mountain farmer family Wilhelm Jost and Gertrud Jost-Imwinkelried in the Goms community of Obergesteln in the canton of Valais . He attended the teachers' seminar in Sion for three years and in 1972, at the age of 18, started his first job as an editorial volunteer at Walliser Volksfreund . From 1978 to 1983 he was stagiaire and editor of the Walliser Bote in Brig , from 1984 editor of the left-wing Walliser opposition newspaper Rote Anneliese . During this time, together with Peter Bodenmann and a group of active workers from Lonza Visp , he prepared the establishment of the Textile-Chemical-Paper Union (GTCP), which was founded on December 17, 1986 and grew into a company group with 800 members within a few years . From 1987 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2011 Beat Jost was senior union secretary of the GTCP and later GBI company group Lonza. In 1992 he was the editor in charge of the action newspaper Dr Anti-Blocker in the run-up to the Swiss referendum on joining the EEA, the low wages in Ems-Chemie , a company owned by SVP politician and EEA and EU opponent Christoph Blocher , were revealed. In 1993 Beat Jost was coordinator of the IG Alu interest group against the closure of the Alusuisse aluminum works in Steg (VS) and a trade union expert in the European Works Council (EWC) of the Alusuisse-Lonza Group. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the Valais Grand Council . From 2001 to 2007 he worked for the Ringier newspapers Blick as a business editor and SonntagsBlick as an editor for the Bundestag . In 2008 he was head of communications at the Commedia media union and from 2009 to 2013 head of the Biel-Seeland / Canton Solothurn region of the Unia union. Since the beginning of 2017 he has been on the Albinen council and mayor .

Beat Jost is married and has three children.

Engagements

  • Co-initiator and board member of the citizens' movement Inns Obergoms - Initiative for a future with a future (1983–1993)
  • President and Secretary of the Upper Valais Trade Union Confederation OGB (1986–1996)
  • Co-initiator and coordinator of the IG ALU interest group against the closure of the Alusuisse aluminum works in Steg (1992–1994)
  • Vice-President of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (1999/2000)
  • President of the SP Oberwallis (2008-2011)
  • Co-initiator of the cantonal popular initiatives “3500 francs minimum wage” (2008) and “Every vote counts” (2010) as well as the referendums “Against the Tourism Act” (2009) and “Alt & Arm im Wallis? No to the new care tax! "(2010–2014)
  • Board member of the "Rottuweri" Naters association against the canalization of the Rottens and the construction of a road bridge into a residential area (1990–1992)
  • Secretary of the Association for the Promotion of the Cultural and Agricultural Estate of Weiler Ammern near Blitzingen (since 2013)

Work

  • with Sandro Brotz : CIA prisons in Europe. The fax affair and its consequences. With an analysis by Dick Marty . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-280-05196-7 .
  • Action newspaper Dr Anti Blocker 1992 about Christoph Blocher and the wages in Ems-Chemie.
  • Action newspapers on Mondaysclick Lonza Visp / 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr Anti Blocker ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Mayor . albinen.ch, accessed on May 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ PDFs

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personal data
SURNAME Jost, beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss trade unionist, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper frames