Christian Metal Union

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Christian Metal Union
(CGM)
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purpose labor union
Chair: Adalbert Ewen
Establishment date: October 15, 1899
Number of members: approx. 98,000 (according to own information)

approx. 17,000 (according to mirror)

Seat : Stuttgart
Website: www.cgm.de

The Christian Metal Union ( CGM ) is a member union of the Christian Trade Union Confederation . Tasks and goals include a. the protection of the spiritual, cultural and material interests of the members on the basis of Christian social teaching . The CGM operates 13 branches, the main administration is in Stuttgart.

history

The forerunner of today's CGM was founded by Franz Wieber on October 15, 1899 in Duisburg as the Christian Metalworkers' Association (CMV). The establishment of Christian trade unions was a reaction to the establishment of the mostly socialist trade unions , in which workers with a Christian background did not feel represented.

After the National Socialists seized power , the organization of the Christian Metalworkers' Association was dissolved. After the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allied powers initially refused to re-establish Christian unions. That is why unified trade unions were founded. After disputes within the unified trade unions, Christian trade unions emerged again in the mid-1950s.

The Christian Metal Workers 'Association (CMV) renamed itself in 1991 at its trade union day in Würzburg as Christian Metal Workers' Union (CGM). At the same time, he expanded his responsibilities from the previous "workers" to all workers in the metal-producing and metalworking industry and in the craft. At the same time, collective bargaining was intensified. Original collective agreements were concluded for the first time in many craft sectors . Another breakthrough in collective bargaining policy was achieved by the CGM with the conclusion of the pioneering Phönix collective bargaining system. In this u. a. For the first time workers and salaried employees are paid according to common valuation principles, flexible annual working hours with time accounts introduced and employees participate in the success of their company. In 2002 the union of CGM and five other unions resulted in the collective bargaining community of Christian unions for temporary work and personnel service agencies (CGZP), which has consisted of only three unions since 2009.

Dispute over tariff eligibility

The IG Metall tried since the mid-1990s, the CGM collective ability to deny and to take her the opportunity to conclude collective agreements. She justified this by stating that due to the low number of members and the organizational structure, the CGM was unable to assert itself sufficiently against employers and to ensure compliance with collective agreements. This means that it does not meet the minimum requirements for a union.

At the request of IG Metall, the Stuttgart Labor Court ruled on September 12, 2003 that the CGM was not a union in the sense of labor law. However, this decision did not become final because on October 1, 2004 , the Baden-Württemberg Regional Labor Court in the second instance granted the CGM the status of a union in the sense of labor law. This judgment was confirmed by the Federal Labor Court on March 28, 2006. The concluded collective agreements are sufficient to justify this. There is no indication of fictitious collective agreements. The finding that the CGM has the status of a trade union was thus final.

In 2011, the collective bargaining association of Christian labor unions for temporary work and personnel service agencies (CGZP) , in which the CGM is involved together with two other unions, was denied the tariff eligibility. The collective agreements concluded by the CGZP thus became retrospectively ineffective and the provision came into force that without an effective collective agreement, the collective wages of the receiving company must be paid. Higher wages also result in higher social security contributions . In 2017, after six years and more than 6,000 company audits, the Deutsche Rentenversicherung carried out post-premium surveys of around 250 million euros, which were spread over around 2.5 million jobs. As a result, CGM committed to equal pay as part of a realignment . H. Equal pay for permanent staff and temporary workers and does not act in the field of temporary work.

Criticism of the CGM

The Christian Metal Union is repeatedly confronted with criticism from trade union circles, in particular from IG Metall. Thus, the IG Metall claimed for example in a press release that CGM run "active wage and social dumping and wander applicable collective bargaining law." ( IG Metall . IGM Press Release No. 18/2006) but also from leftist circles CGM learns repeatedly criticism as Yellow Union .

literature

Web links

On the tariff eligibility of the CGM

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfons Frese: Christian competition for IG Metall. In: tagesspiegel.de . November 2, 2005, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Müller and Andreas Wassermann: Last Judgment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2015, p. 36 ( online ).
  3. ↑ CGM offices
  4. ↑ http://www.haufe.de/personal/newsDetails?newsID=1299235599.28&topic=Arbeitsrecht&topicView=Arbeitsrecht
  5. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - Press - Unsuccessful constitutional complaint against the retrospective determination of the incapacity of the collective bargaining community of Christian trade unions for temporary work and personnel service agencies. In: www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de. Retrieved June 8, 2015 .
  6. ↑ FOCUS Online: Federal Labor Court smashes Christian union. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ balance on "collective inability of CGZP" . In: all in all . No. 02/2017 . Deutsche Rentenversicherung , May 2, 2017 ( deutsche-rentenversicherung.de [accessed February 3, 2019]).
  8. ↑ IG Metall: CGM remains powerless organization ( Memento from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )