German Bankers Association
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DBV |
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| Club data | |
| Associations: | 6 regional associations |
| Members: | 20,800 |
| Federal Executive | |
| Chairman: | Stephan Szukalski |
| Deputy Chairman: | Robert Piasta |
| Deputy Chair: | Ursula Feikes |
| Internet | |
| Website: | dbv-gewerkschaft.de |
The German Bank Employees Association ( DBV ) is an independent union for employees of financial service providers based in Düsseldorf . It is entered in the register of associations at the Düsseldorf District Court under the number VR 3723 with the name of the Deutscher Bankangestellen-Verband eV - hereinafter referred to as: DBV Financial Service Providers Union. It has 20,800 members (as of the end of 2014), making it the second largest union in the banking industry. The DBV sees itself as an independent alternative to the DGB unions. It is a tariff partner of the private banking industry, the cooperative banks, the private insurance industry and in numerous house tariffs. It was founded in Magdeburg in 1894 by 56 employees in the private banking industry as the Association of German Bankers. To this day, most of the members of the DBV are employed in the banking industry.
history
During the German Empire and the Weimar Republic , the DBV was the largest union in the banking sector, with a level of organization of 80–90% of the employees. He was instrumental in founding the pension fund for the banking industry, the BVV , in 1909 and is still a member of the pension fund and represented on the fund's supervisory board. In 1920 the DBV achieved the conclusion of the first Reich collective agreement for the banking industry through protracted, nationwide strikes. In the same year, the competing association of bank officials was taken over.
In 1919 women became members of the DBV for the first time. At this point in time, only around 10% of bank employees were female. After overcoming the hyperinflation in 1923, the number of employees in the banking industry fell massively, which the DBV also felt through the decline in membership. It did not stabilize until 1932, as the global economic crisis that began in 1928 also affected the banking landscape. However, the fruits could no longer be harvested: In 1933 the long-time chairman (board member since 1903), Max Fürstenberg (1872–1934), was deposed in a board meeting at short notice and the DBV was brought into line. The assets of around 1 million Reichsmarks at that time were confiscated. The DBV was finally absorbed into the German Labor Front (DAF) via the German National Handicrafts Association .
After the Second World War, apart from the DGB trade unions, only the German employees' union DAG received approval. The DBV was only able to re-establish itself on December 16, 1952 and initially failed to build on the prewar successes in the banking industry. Against the trend, however , numerous members could be won again in these early years in the western area (Düsseldorf and Cologne ), in Munich and in the Hanover area . In 1970 the DBV was renamed the German Bank Employees Association .
In the 1970s and 1980s, the DGB trade unions increasingly tried to deny smaller trade unions their trade union status and thus their ability to pay tariffs by means of a court decision. In 1981, the Trade Union Trade, Banks, Insurance ( HBV ) also filed a suit against the DBV, but in 1989 the Düsseldorf Regional Labor Court finally established the DBV's status as a union.
In 1994 the DBV celebrated its 100th anniversary at a general meeting in Magdeburg, where it was founded, and was subsequently renamed DBV - Union of Financial Service Providers (2002). The DBV thus took into account the all-finance concept of various banks and insurance companies, which would also lead to the takeover of Dresdner Bank by Allianz. Many banks, too, had strengthened themselves at the beginning of the 1990s by purchasing insurance. The DBV was strengthened in its strategy by the trend in the major banks to outsource departments and service areas to independent service companies that can operate without a banking license .
The entry of the German Employees' Union (DAG) to ver.di in 2001 led to numerous transfers of members and honorary functionaries (works councils and supervisory boards) to the DBV. In addition to this wave of accession in 2001 and 2002, the DBV continues to grow, despite declining employment in the core banking sector. The DBV is represented by members in all major banks and insurance companies. However, the degree of organization (like all other unions in the branch) is still low, only in a few houses is it 30–40% of the workforce. In the major banks, the DBV is particularly well represented among the employees of Deutsche Bank, HypoVereinsbank and ING-DiBa. Further focal points are the BHF-Bank , Berliner Volksbank , some subsidiaries of Postbank (BCB AG), the Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank and others, but also the Allianz Group and even the banking software manufacturer SAP.
The best-known DBV member is the former Federal Minister of Health Daniel Bahr (FDP).
Association memberships
The DBV - union of financial service providers, is independent of the association. However, the Postbank collective bargaining association with dpvkom and komba trade union (under the management of dbb Tarifunion ) has existed since 2008 . According to the board of directors, there is no intention to join the DBB Beamtenbund and Tarifunion as a member. Furthermore, in 2017 it became known that the DBV - union of financial service providers, had agreed a collective bargaining agreement with ver.di for the Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken.
Between 1919 and 1923 the DBV - Union of Financial Service Providers was a founding member of the DGB (umbrella organization of Christian trade unions during the Weimar Republic ) and the General Association of German Salaried Employees' Unions (Gedag) . With the Gedag in particular, however, tensions quickly arose due to the increasingly prominent ethnic, anti-Semitic and misogynist orientation of the Gedag, which led to the resignation of the DBV in 1923. As a result, the union joined the left-liberal-minded union ring of German white-collar workers, workers 'and civil servants' associations (itself a member of the Hirsch-Duncker trade unions ) and from then on was considered to be "Jewish" in particular by the emerging National Socialists. With the dissolution of the DBV in 1933 in favor of the German National Handicrafts Association , old bills probably also played a role, the entire former board of the DBV was excluded from the new organization at any rate at short notice.
Against the background of this experience, the DBV avoided any membership in an association or trade union federation when it was founded. So it came as a surprise to observers in 2008 when the DBV concluded a collective bargaining association with the dbb member unions DPVKOM and komba, initially limited to Postbank , which later even placed itself under the management of the collective bargaining union.
The dispute over the right trade union policy
In 2006 there were violent disputes with ver.di when the DBV concluded in-house wage agreements for three subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank , which among other things stipulate regular weekly working hours of 42 hours. ver.di excludes weekly working hours over 40 hours and violently attacked the DBV after the separate deals.
Norisbank GmbH, newly acquired by Deutsche Bank , for which a joint in-house wage agreement was to be agreed upon in a negotiating group , offered further fuel . This negotiating community did not come to a conclusion, however, as the negotiations clearly showed the different approaches. While for ver.di the minimum security / basic salary was in the foreground of the negotiations, the design of the variable remuneration component was more important for the DBV. On September 1, 2007, a collective agreement for norisbank, which was agreed solely with the DBV, came into force, while the employers' side unilaterally declared the negotiations with ver.di to be over.
In 2011, the ver.di federal congress decided to want to “conduct open discussions with opposing organizations”. The following were explicitly mentioned: “In the financial services department, these are the trade unions DHV - Die Berufsgewerkschaft and DBV - Trade Union of Financial Service Providers .” The following rules of conduct were defined: “ver.di members and interest representatives are advised in this context that everyone Political cooperation with members of these organizations constitutes behavior that is harmful to trade unions. ”A clear declaration of war was made:“ Legal disputes with opposing organizations should always be conducted when they appear promising. ”
When Deutsche Bank bought Postbank in 2011 and subsequently wanted to worsen the working conditions of the back office units, joint labor disputes (e.g. a three-day warning strike at the payment subsidiary BCB AG) led to renewed cautious rapprochement between the unions . As a result, the DBV terminated the disputed in-house collective agreements at the subsidiaries, and the renegotiations were carried out together with ver.di.
The cooperative banks, which since 2008 have only been concluding collective agreements with the DBV, have also come closer to each other. On February 4, 2016, a representative of ver.di and the DBV federal chairman told the Handelsblatt that both unions were talking about a collective bargaining community in the cooperative sector. This resulted in the conclusion of an agreement on a collective bargaining community in 2017.
Board
- Federal Chairman: Stephan Szukalski
- Deputy Federal Chairmen : Robert Piasta , Ursula Feikes
- Other board members: Karl Sölter , Sigrid Betzen (Federal Managing Director ), Jürgen Tögel , Christian Schulz
Regional associations
The union is currently divided into 6 regional associations:
- Regional Association North
- Regional Association West
- Regional association center
- Regional Association East
- Regional Association South
- Regional association south-west