Textile Clothing Union
The Textile Clothing Union (GTB) was a union within the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) based in Düsseldorf .
history
The union was established in Bad Salzuflen in 1949 as a politically independent unitary union for employees in the textile and clothing industry, which emerged from the union of the textile and clothing unions in the western zones of occupation. With the new foundations, the party-politically oriented unions were overcome. Until the National Socialists broke up , the two trades were organized in their own unions.
Focus
The two branches serviced by GTB, textile and clothing industry, experienced rapid growth in the 1950s. With the growing population income, the clothing industry initially developed into one of the largest consumer goods industries in Germany. In the textile industry, there was a strong increase in productivity, driven by the further development of spinning and weaving machines. The participation of the employees in the result of this positive development was the task of the union in terms of collective bargaining policy. The harshness of these collective bargaining was evident in numerous strikes. The six-week strike in the textile industry in Westphalia in 1953 with 23,000 employees and the strike movement in the spring of 1958 with unlimited work stoppages in Lower Saxony , Bremen and Hesse were serious .
GTB dealt early on with issues relating to the relocation of textile and clothing production. This was already an issue at the 1959 trade union day. In 1973 over 10,000 employees demonstrated in Bonn for a world textile agreement that was supposed to protect domestic jobs from competition from low-wage countries. In particular, the unequal social conditions, the lack of social standards, restricted or partially non-existent freedom of trade unions and child labor were discussed for the first time. In 1974 the trade union day called for an examination of "whether and to what extent labeling of imported goods that have been manufactured under unfair competitive conditions can be achieved".
With the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany , the GTB was also responsible for the new federal states by statute . Around 320,000 people were employed in the textile and clothing industry, the number of which fell to 20,000 within five years.
In 1996 the GTB wrote collective bargaining history with the “Alliance for Employment and Training”. For the first time, a DGB union agreed on operational deviations from the general collective bargaining agreement, and extensive working time flexibility options were included in the general collective bargaining agreements. The associated hope that the drastic job cuts in Germany could at least be slowed down significantly did not come true.
In 1996 the main board realized that an independent union for the textile and clothing industry no longer has a future. In order to remain creative and to regulate the working conditions in the textile and clothing industry, the 3rd Extraordinary Trade Union Day in October 1997 decided to dissolve the GTB on June 30, 1998. The delegates voted for the integration of the textile and clothing branches into the IG Metall , which extended its area of responsibility to the textile and clothing industry by amending the statutes.
Employees and members
The employment figures include the textile and clothing industry, old Federal Republic of Germany, at the end of each year, 1998 including the new federal states.
| year | Employees | GTB members |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 784.953 | 414.818 |
| 1960 | 941.200 | 355.299 |
| 1970 | 876,500 | 302.913 |
| 1980 | 574.173 | 293,766 |
| 1990 | 373.472 | 249,880 |
| 1998 | 131,624 | 188,000 |
Chairwoman of the Textile Clothing Union
- 1949–1963: Werner Bock
- 1963–1978: Karl Buschmann
- 1978–1990: Berthold Keller
- 1990-1998: Willi Arens
Members of the first executive board in 1949
- Werner Bock, first chairman
- Bernhard Tacke , Deputy First Chairman
- Karl Pöhlmann, second chairman
- Hugo Karpf , deputy chairman
- Paul Trost, chief cashier
- Liesel Kipp-Kaule , secretary
- Fritz Knepper, secretary
Members of the last executive board in 1998
- Willi Arens , chairman
- Hermann Paschen, deputy chairman
- Winfried Hüren, board member
- Manfred Schallmeyer, board member
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Protocol of the Association Congress of the Textile Clothing Union for the Western Zones of Germany, Mönchengladbach, 1949.
- ↑ See the minutes of the negotiations of the 14th Congress of the Trade Unions of Germany, Berlin 1931, in which the German Clothing Workers Association, German Hat Workers Association, German Textile Workers Association participated.
- ↑ See Werner Bock, Minutes of the 4th Ordinary Congress (GTB), Viersen, 1955, p. 61.
- ↑ See on this Karl Buschmann, 6th trade union day textile clothing Hamburg 1959, protocol, Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 106.
- ↑ See Karl Buschmann, 6th Textile-Clothing Trade Union Day, Hamburg 1959, Protocol, Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 105.
- ↑ Textile and Clothing Union, Minutes of the 12th Ordinary Trade Union Day, Munich 1974, Düsseldorf, 1974, p. 307.
- ^ Manfred Schallmeyer, Minutes of the 3rd Extraordinary Trade Union Day of the Textile Clothing Union, Düsseldorf, 1997, p. 82.
- ↑ Textil-Wirtschaft No. 13 of March 28, 1996, p. 6.
- ^ Protocol 3rd Extraordinary Trade Union Day of the Textile Clothing Union, Düsseldorf, 1997, pp. 185ff.
- ↑ Verbatim minutes of the 4th Extraordinary Trade Union Day of IG Metall on October 11, 1997 in Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 27.
- ↑ Sources: Annual reports of the main board of the textile and clothing trade union, number of employees in 1998: total textiles, figures on industry, 1998 edition, Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ Protocol of the Association Congress of the Textile Clothing Union for the Western Zones of Germany, Mönchengladbach, 1949.
- ↑ Minutes of the 3rd Extraordinary Trade Union Day of the Textile Clothing Union, Düsseldorf, 1997.