DHV - The trade union

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DHV - The Trade Union
(DHV)
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legal form registered association
founding October 1, 1950
Seat Hamburg
purpose labor union
Chair Henning Röders
Members 73,451 (2015)
Website dhv-cgb.de

DHV - The trade union based in Hamburg is a trade union in the Christian Trade Union Confederation (CGB). The chairman is Henning Röders. The DHV organizes 73,451 members (as of December 31, 2015) in commercial and administrative professions, focusing on the retail, banking, insurance, statutory health insurance and health care sectors. In May 2020, the Hamburg State Labor Court denied her the ability to pay tariffs in a decision that was not yet legally binding .

Self-image

The DHV is a Christian trade union and, as a member of the Christian Trade Union Confederation in Germany, is committed to the basic principles of Christian social teaching:

  • Personality (human image of the inviolable dignity of every human being),
  • Solidarity (social principle of human cohesion) and
  • Subsidiarity (social principle of responsibility and self-help of the smaller social units, starting with the family).

history

From the foundation in 1893 to 1933

On September 7, 1893, assistants who had previously belonged to the “Verein für Handlungscommis” (Association for Action Commis) founded the “German Association for Action” on the basis of the Christian-social idea. Two years later, the association was then renamed the German National Handicrafts Association (DHV).

The DHV experienced a strong boom in the years from its founding until it was brought into line in 1933 and dissolved in 1935. By 1898 it grew to 18,277 members, in 1903 to 50,216 and to 148,079 in 1913. After the First World War , membership continued to grow . By July 1, 1930, the DHV had risen to become the largest employee association in Europe with 401,000 members.

The DHV was involved in the founding of several charities. In 1898, for example, the “German National Health and Funeral Fund” was launched, which for the first time granted health insurance coverage for the clerks. The DHV cash register was one of the founding pillars of today's DAK health . In 1913 the DHV founded the "Deutschnationale Versicherungs-AG", whose later name was Deutscher Ring after it was expanded to include life insurance and other branches of insurance from 1925 . In order to provide employees with affordable housing, the DHV initiated the foundation of the non-profit public limited company for employees' homes ( GAGFAH ) in 1918 , in which the association was the majority shareholder with over 80% of the shares until 1933.

When the National Socialists came to power, the DHV came into the sights of the new rulers. Even before the socialist trade unions were smashed on May 2, 1933, leading members of the administration, chairman Hans Bechly and board members Karl Bott, Otto Thiel and Max Habermann on 9/10. April forced to resign. Habermann, a staunch opponent of the National Socialists, was banned from the house and DHV members were banned from contact. The aim of the NSDAP campaign was the ideological harmonization of the DHV

The successor to the head of the association, Bechly, was his previous deputy, Hermann Miltzow. Miltzow, who had been forced to join the NSDAP, was released on June 30, 1933. The conformity was completed on an extraordinary association day on July 14, 1933. This was carried out under circumstances contrary to the statutes and with 14 selected members loyal to the NSDAP. This association day adopted the National Socialist leader principle and deleted the union tasks and goals. The merger with other employee unions to form the “German Employees” led to the merging of the German Labor Front a little later .

Since the re-establishment in 1950

The re-establishment of Christian trade unions, which saw themselves as ideologically oriented unions with a professional structure, was only possible in 1949 after the entry into force of the Basic Law and the freedom of association enshrined in it as a fundamental right.

The founding meeting took place in Hamburg on October 1, 1950, and the re-established association was named "DHV Professional Association of Merchant's Assistants". On the 1st Ordinary Association Day in Königswinter on June 7th and 8th, 1952, the name was changed to "DHV - Deutscher Handelsgehilfen-Verband, union of merchants". The Association Day 1956 then expanded the name and responsibility to "German Trade and Industrial Employees Association" (DHV).

The DHV was one of the founding unions that established the Christian Trade Union Federation of Germany ( CGB ) as an umbrella organization on June 27, 1959 in Mainz .

After the first free Volkskammer election in the GDR on March 18, 1990, the DHV began building a Christian 'German Employees' Association' (DAV) in the east, which was to be merged with the DHV after the expected reunification. On the first day of the association after German reunification in 1990 in Oldenburg, German unification was also implemented by amending the DHV statutes.

On the 18th Association Day in Saarbrücken in 2006, the DHV was renamed "DHV-Die Berufsgewerkschaft eV".

structure

The DHV operates nationwide. It is divided into nine regional associations, some of which include several countries. This includes the regional associations

  • Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein
  • Central Germany (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia)
  • Lower Saxony-Bremen
  • Northeast (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • Bavaria
  • Baden-Württemberg
  • Hesse
  • NRW
  • Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar

In technical terms, the union is divided into company groups and the specialist groups banks, substitute funds, health and social services, trade and the private insurance industry. These are the collective bargaining committees and are responsible for collective bargaining work beyond the general requirements of the DHV main board.

Collective labor

From the tradition of the white-collar union, the DHV is represented in the trade, banking, insurance, statutory social insurance and health care sectors. The DHV has concluded around 24,000 collective bargaining agreements since 1950.

In 1954, the DHV concluded the first area collective agreement (West) for the private banking industry with the employers' association of the private banking industry. Since then, DHV has been the tariff partner of private banks without interruption.

DHV has been the collective bargaining partner of the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken since the 1960s. In 2008, the employers' association of the Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken (AVR) broke off collective bargaining with verdi, and since then the DHV and the German Bank Employees Association (DBV) have conducted negotiations for around 160,000 employees of the Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken. In 2012, for example, with the AVR, the DHV was able to enforce a right of employees to paid leave for the implementation of preventive health measures for the first time in a collective agreement.

DHV has been a collective bargaining partner of employers' associations in retail since the 1950s. The oldest collective agreement dates from 1956 and was concluded in the wholesale and foreign trade of North Rhine-Westphalia.

DHV has been the tariff partner of the employers' association of insurance companies in Germany since the 1960s. In 2005, the collective agreement between DHV and Sparkassenversicherung Sachsen attracted nationwide attention.

From 1962 on, the DHV was a tariff partner of the collective bargaining association of the substitute funds. The DHV worked together with the DAG and HBV trade unions on the replacement fund tariff negotiations. Since the withdrawal of KKH, BARMER GEK and DAK-Gesundheit from the collective bargaining association of the replacement funds, the DHV has been conducting in-house tariff negotiations with these three replacement funds.

The DHV is a collective bargaining partner in the health sector, initially through the Federal Employees' Collective Agreement (BAT), and since the 2000s in many in-house collective bargaining, e.g. B. with the clinics of the Lielje Group, the German Red Cross (DRK) and the Arbeiterwohlfahrt .

Supervisory board elections

Since the Codetermination Act came into force, DHV has been represented on the supervisory boards of large companies (e.g. Metro Group, Kaufhof, REWE, Hornbach Baumarkt, NÜRNBERGER Insurance, Gothaer Insurance, Talanx Insurance, Wüstenrot Bausparkasse, Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG, Württembergische Versicherung AG) . The DHV achieved sensational election successes in the supervisory board elections, as recently in 2016:

  • REWE Deutscher Supermarket AG & Co. KGaA on May 31, 2016: 72.5%
  • Württembergische Versicherung on May 12, 2016: 43.7%
  • NÜRNBERGER Lebensversicherung AG on February 25, 2016: 43.8%
  • NÜRNBERGER Allgemeine Versicherung AG on February 25, 2016: 41.7%

Works councils / staff councils

The DHV is represented nationwide in companies with works councils and mainly in the substitute funds with staff councils.

In the 2014 works council elections at Wüstenrot Bausparkasse , DHV won 9 of 17 works council seats and provided the works council and general works council chairman. At Talanx AG, Matthias Rickel, a DHV member, is also chairman of the general works council. The DHV is also represented in general works councils in other companies, e.g. B. in the Metro and REWE group.

In the staff council elections of the health insurance companies DAK-Gesundheit, BARMER GEK and KKH, the DHV achieved the following results in the elections to the main staff councils:

social insurance

The DHV has been taking part in the social elections since it was re-established in the 1950s and is active in social insurance bodies. DHV members are active as members of the representative assemblies and their committees, as well as insurance advisors and members of appeal committees.

Association of young merchants in the DHV

The DHV youth organization was founded in 1904. In the "Bund der Kaufmannsjugend im DHV" are all trainees, prospective professionals (schoolchildren and students) and working people who have not yet reached the age of 27. Her most important tasks are imparting trade union expertise and teaching labor and social law. The DHV-Jugend is united with five other youth associations in the working group of central youth associations (AzJ). The publication organ of the Bund der Kaufmannsjugend are the “Blätter für Junge Kaufmen”, which appeared for the first time in 1920.

In the 1920s, the Bund der Kaufmannsjugend (Association of Young Businesspeople) launched the DHV professional competition, a performance test for trainees in commercial and administrative professions. The first professional competition was held in Heidelberg in 1925 with tasks in the areas of correspondence, arithmetic and foreign languages ​​as well as essays and shorthand. After the re-establishment in 1950, the DHV professional competition was resumed.

Christian trade union federation of Germany

Since 1959, DHV has been a founding member of the Christian Trade Union Federation of Germany ( CGB ), which acts as the umbrella organization for Christian-socially oriented trade unions. From 1964 to 1969 the DHV provided Paul Seiler as the chairman of the CGB. The DHV Federal Chairman Henning Röders has been Deputy Federal Chairman since 2013. The DHV honorary chairman Jörg Hebsacker is a co-opted member of the CGB federal board.

Membership in international organizations

Via the CGB, the DHV also participates in the Union of Independent Trade Unions (Confédération Européenne des Syndicats Indépendants, CESI), which brings together umbrella organizations at European level. With Jörg Hebsacker, who was the fifth DHV chairman after the war from 1986 to 2010, the DHV provided one of eight vice-presidents of the CESI from 1996 to 2008.

On the international level, DHV is a member of the World Organization of Workers (WOW), which base their trade union work on socially / religiously based values; in Europe on Christian social teaching.

Status procedure

Since it was founded, several lawsuits have been brought against the DHV in labor court proceedings regarding the tariff eligibility of competing unions.

The first legally binding decision of the Hamburg Labor Court was made on December 10, 1956 (Az .: ArbG Hamburg: 2 BV 366/1956). This was followed by proceedings before the Hamburg Regional Labor Court (Az .: LArbG Hamburg: 5 TaBV 1/80), which became final on February 1, 1983 (1 ABR 25/81) following the rejection of the Federal Labor Court. In a third proceeding, the Hamburg Labor Court rejected the applicants' applications on August 11, 1992 (Ref .: ArbG Hamburg: 1 BV 8/92). Finally, in a fourth procedure, the decision of the Hamburg Regional Labor Court on February 18, 1997 confirmed the DHV's tariff eligibility. (Ref .: LArbG Hamburg: 2 Ta BV 9/95).

On May 4, 2016, the Hamburg Regional Labor Court fully confirmed the status of a union and the tariff eligibility of DHV. (LArbG Hamburg: Ref .: 5 TaBV 8/15). The Federal Labor Court referred the decision back to the Hamburg Regional Labor Court in June 2018. On the basis of the previous findings, the Senate could not make a final decision on the tariff capability of the DHV. In May 2020, the regional labor court denied the DHV tariff eligibility on the grounds of the low level of organization. It does not have the required minimum level of negotiating weight against its social opponent. The process was operated by IG Metall , Ver.di , NGG and the highest labor authorities of the states of Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia. The decision is not final and can be appealed to the Federal Labor Court (Az .: LArbG Hamburg: 5 TaBV 15/18).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Völker Böge, Hartwig Stein: 225 years of the DAK . Ed .: German employee health insurance. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-933374-19-6 , pp. 60 f .
  2. ^ Peter Rütters: The German National Handicrafts Association (DHV) and National Socialism . S. 92-95 .
  3. ↑ Chronicle bank rate of the employers' association of private banks. Private Banking Employers' Association, accessed July 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ History. Employers' Association of Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken eV, accessed on July 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Collective agreements for the private insurance industry. Employers' Association of Insurance Companies in Germany, accessed on July 25, 2016 .
  6. ^ Dietrich Creutzburg: Tariff policy: New start in the tariff dispute with insurers. In: Handelsblatt . December 19, 2005, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bondzio: REWE German supermarket AG & Co KGaA: DHV increases result to 72.5% of the delegate votes in the election to the supervisory board. DHV - Die Berufsgewerkschaft, June 7, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  8. ^ Henning Röders: Wüstenrot & Württembergische supervisory board election: DHV with strong results. DHV - The Professional Union, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Marc Endlich: DHV again successful in the supervisory board elections of NÜRNBERGER Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG and NÜRNBERGER Lebensversicherung AG. DHV - Die Berufsgewerkschaft, March 1, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ DHV wins absolute majorities in the supervisory board election and the works council election Wüstenrot! hrsg = press release of the Christian Trade Union Federation of Germany. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Staff council elections 2016 DAK-Gesundheit DHV position successfully maintained. DHV operating group DAK, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Main staff council election KKH: DHV position strengthened. DHV operating group replacement cash registers, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Henning Röders: Staff council elections BARMER GEK DHV wins second seat in the main staff council. DHV operating group Barmer GEK, May 12, 2016, archived from the original on August 19, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Decision of May 4, 2016: DHV is tariff eligible. Press release of the Hamburg Regional Labor Court, May 10, 2016, archived from the original on July 25, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Federal Labor Court, decision of June 26, 2018 - 1 ABR 37/16 -, quoted from the Federal Labor Court: press release No. 35/18.
  16. ↑ Labor court: DHV union is no longer eligible for collective bargaining. Hamburg.de, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ . beck-current. May 25, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020.

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