PRO-GE union
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| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | Rainer Wimmer |
| Establishment date: | November 26, 2009 |
| Number of members: | around 240,000 (2010) |
| Seat : | 1020 Vienna, Johann-Böhm-Platz 1 |
| Website: | www.proge.at |
The trade union PRO-GE (production union ) is one of a total of seven sub-unions in the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) and the largest workers' union in Austria. PRO-GE negotiates around 140 collective agreements in various industries.
PRO-GE was founded on November 26th, 2009 from the Metal-Textile-Food Union (GMTN) and the Chemical Workers Union (GdC). Rainer Wimmer was elected federal chairman of the new production union with 99.13 percent.
history
In 1945 the "Metalworkers and Miners Union" was founded. In 1977, on the 11th trade union day, the name was changed to "Metal-Mining-Energy Union". On June 20, 2000, the "Metal-Mining-Energy Union" merged with the "Textile, Clothing, Leather Union" (TBL). The new name was "Metal-Textile Union" (GMT). Only six years later, GMT was merged with the “Agricultural-Food-Enjoyment Union” (ANG), and the name was now “Metal-Textile-Food Union” (GMTN). On November 26th, 2009 the “Union PRO-GE” was finally founded from the GMTN and the “Union of Chemical Workers” (GdC).
PRO-GE Presidium
The executive committee of PRO-GE consists of the federal chairman, Rainer Wimmer and the deputy federal chairman Klaudia Frieben (federal woman chairwoman) and Alfred Artmäuer, Andreas Martiner (regional chairman Styria), Hans Karl Schaller (regional chairman Upper Austria), Paul Kovanda (regional chairman Vienna), Erwin Straussberger (Provincial Chairman of Lower Austria) and the Federal Secretaries Manfred Anderle, Manfred Felix, René Schindler, Peter Schleinbach and Peter Schissler.
service
The PRO-GE union offers help and support to its members. PRO-GE members benefit from free legal advice, legal protection, further training courses, assistance in an emergency or inexpensive vacations, tickets for cultural and sporting events or simply information about work.
Sectors of PRO-GE
The PRO-GE union represents around a quarter of a million members and thousands more employees in the following sectors:
- Metal: Metal industry, mining, metal industry, energy supply, petroleum industry
- Textile: textile industry, textile industry, clothing industry, clothing industry, leather
- Temporary work
- Agriculture / food / enjoyment: Agriculture, food, enjoyment, land, forest, garden, meat, fish, fat, bakers, millers, dairies, beverages, tobacco and salt works.
- Chemistry: chemical industry, chemical trade, vulcanization, auxiliary building trade (Vienna)
- Glass: Glassworks, glass working and processing industry, Gablonzers, glassblowers and glass instrument makers
- Paper: paper and cardboard manufacturing industry
Metal industry and mining
Every autumn, PRO-GE negotiates the new collective agreement for workers in the metal industry and mining together with the union of private employees , printing, journalism, paper (GPA-djp) . This “metal workers' wage round” or “autumn wage round”, which is often referred to by the media, always receives special public attention, since the wage settlement is considered to be a trend-setting for many other areas.
Wage settlements in metal industry / mining since 1999 and inflation rate
| year | Minimum wages | Actual wages | inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2.4% | 1.9% | 0.6% |
| 2000 | 3.7% | 3.4% | 2.3% |
| 2001 | 3% | 2.9% | 2.7% |
| 2002 | 2.3% | 2.2% | 1.8% |
| 2003 | 2.1% | 2.1% | 1.3% |
| 2004 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.1% |
| 2005 | 3.1% | 3.1% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | 2.6% | 2.6% | 1.5% |
| 2007 | 3.6% | 3.5% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | 3.9% | 3.9% | 3.2% |
| 2009 | 1.5% | 1.45% | 0.5% |
| 2010 | 2.5% | 2.3% | 1.9% |
| 2011 | 4.4% | 4.4% | 3.3% |
| 2012 | 3.4% | 3.3% | 2.4% |
| 2013 | 3.2% | 3.2% | 2.0% |
| 2014 | 2.1% | 2.1% | 1.7% |
Temporary work
Representing the interests of the temporary workers (contract workers, leasing staff, temporary workers) is the responsibility of the PRO-GE union. In 2002, PRO-GE achieved the first European collective agreement for the industry.
The annual statistical survey of the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection showed that on the reference date (July 31, 2010) 66,054 hired workers were employed by 1,269 hirers. 813 companies (in 2009: 669 companies) submitted an empty report; At this point in time, these were inactive or had no valid trade license. Despite this reference date survey, weak points in the survey make it difficult to determine the actual number of leased workers and lenders.
One weak point is that only those people are recorded who actually work on the reference date. This means that neither those employees who are on vacation or who are on sick leave are recorded, nor those who are not working on that day due to marginal employment. For this reason, the actual number of leased workers is likely to be higher than determined by the reference date survey. “The number of leased workers is therefore not identical to the number of people who have an ongoing employment relationship with a temporary worker in the sense of labor law or provisions subject to social insurance. Only a very small percentage of workers transferred to Austria from the EEA region were recorded in this survey. ”Source: Statistics web portal for temporary workers and private employment agencies
Web links
- PRO-GE union website
- Current information on the collective agreement negotiations of PRO-GE
- Further information for temporary workers (rights and obligations) and works councils in Austria
- PRO-GE member magazine "Glück auf!"
- ÖGB website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: "A house with a story (s) - Die Metallerzentrale Plößlgasse", PRO-GE trade union, 2010
- ↑ Source: http://www.proge.at/
- ↑ Commercial labor leasing in Austria in 2010. (PDF; 45.4 KB) In: akupav.eipi.at. Archived from the original on January 31, 2012 ; accessed on April 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Source: PDF ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
