Union of Private Employees, Printing, Journalism, Paper
| Union of Private Employees, Printing, Journalism, Paper (GPA-djp) |
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| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | Barbara Teiber |
| Establishment date: | New establishment from GPA and djp November 16, 2006 |
| Number of members: | 277,792 (2014) |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | www.gpa-djp.at |
The union of private employees , printing, journalism, paper (GPA-djp) is a union of employees in the private sector , employees in the graphic trade and the paper processing industry as well as journalists in Austria.
The GPA-djp was created on November 16, 2006 through the merger of the Union of Private Employees (GPA) and the Printing, Journalism, Paper (djp) union . With around 270,000 members and around 15,000 works councils , it is the largest branch union in the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB). Around 160 collective agreements for a wide range of economic sectors are negotiated with the works councils each year . The djp headquarters moved to the GPA building on Alfred-Dallinger-Platz in the third district of Vienna .
From its founding in 2006, Wolfgang Katzian was Federal Chairman of the GPA-djp, and Barbara Teiber succeeded him in this role in June 2018 .
service
In addition to the union collective agreement work of the GPA-djp, services are offered to the members. This includes legal protection in all labor law matters, a GPA card and djp card, financial benefits in emergency situations and advice on many labor law matters.
history
djp
The printer union is the oldest union in Austria. Its story begins in 1842 with the establishment of the “Support Association for Sick Printers and Type Founders in Vienna”. This was the first association in Austria that set itself the goal of improving the living conditions of workers and created the basis for later union structures. On August 9, 1848, the decision was made to found a " Gutenberg Association of Book Printers in Vienna". The demands included, among other things, equating the political rights of the workers with the other classes, the establishment of shorter working hours and the creation of health and disability funds with state aid. On March 15, 1852, the Gutenberg Association was dissolved by the state and only returned to the successor organization “General Support Association for Sick Printers and Type Founders in Vienna” 16 years later.
A centralization of the many workers' associations was soon sought. In order to at least establish loose connections to the Crown Land Associations, the printers chose to form a commission that did not require approval by the state. Another effective step towards the unification of the many associations can be seen in the establishment of the Graphic Cartel on April 15, 1921. This summed up
- the association of book printers and type foundry associations and related professions in Austria (including those employed by Viennese newspapers),
- the Reich Association of Aid Workers in the Book Printing and Newspaper Industry in Austria ,
- the Austrian Senefelderbund and
- the association of bookbinders and paper workers in Austria .
In 1923 the Reichsverein founded on December 17, 1922 - the union of all assistants and unskilled workers - was finally able to start its work. With 8,179 active and 285 disabled members, an organizational density of 98 percent was established in the new Austria in 1920.
The story ended in 1934: As one of the first measures after the February fights , the free trade unions were dissolved and their functionaries, as well as works councils and functionaries of the self-government institutions (social insurance) persecuted. All free trade union or social democratic works councils lost their mandate by government order (February 21, 1934). On July 25, 1934, the anti-social-democratic-minded Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , who ruled by the Enabling Act, succumbed to an assassination attempt in an attempted coup by the National Socialists that failed in and of itself. Kurt Schuschnigg succeeded Dollfuss. After the National Socialist annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, the trade union building, owned by the Reich Association since 1927, was occupied by the German Labor Front .
On April 18, 1945 - at the end of the Second World War - the colleagues met for the first time to form a provisional committee. The structures of the ÖGB established at that time still exist today - apart from the merging of some unions.
From 1993 until the merger in 2006, Franz Bittner was chairman of the djp.
GPA
The association of commercial employees was also formed before the First World War . The Association of Insurance Officers followed in 1901, the Reich Association of Bank and Savings Bank Officials in 1907, and in 1912 the Association of Commercial Industrial Officials. The aim was a unified union for all employees in the private sector.
In the “ unified trade union ” of the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime, the employees were grouped into “professional associations” and specialist groups (which were referred to as unions). With Schuschnigg's speech on the evening of March 11, 1938 and his resigned wish “God protect Austria”, the country's fate was sealed. There was no employee organization of its own in the Nazi regime's “ German Labor Front ” .
On April 30, 1945, the executive committee of the union of private sector employees (GAP) was constituted. Friedrich Hillegeist became the first chairman . This laid the foundation for today's GPA, which has been using this name since 1962.
Educational program
The GPA-djp education program is geared towards the works councils and youth trust councils in the GPA-djp. The aim of the educational work is to give works council members / youth trust council members the knowledge and skills that support their works council activities / youth trust council successfully and efficiently for the benefit of the employees.
The educational offer included basic and advanced courses for newly elected works council members / youth trust council members, courses for social skills, personal development, negotiation training, anti-discrimination / collective agreement development and special seminars e.g. B. on the subject of pension funds.
Interest groups
With the establishment of the interest groups (IG), the GPA-djp has reacted to new developments in professional activity. The idea was to found cross-industry platforms. They offer communication, networking and exchange on professional activities, regardless of the industry and company. There are currently eight interest groups: work @ professional (specialists and managers), work @ flex (atypical employees), work @ social (social professions), work @ IT (IT professions), work @ education (education), work @ external (Field service), work @ migration (migrants), work @ point-of-sale (sales and consulting professions).
GPA-djp youth
The GPA djp Youth is the youth organization of the union. It sees itself as a voluntary and non-partisan representation of the interests of those apprentices who are learning a commercial apprenticeship in the private sector, an apprenticeship in the graphic trade or in the paper processing industry. In addition, pupils, students and young employees in the above-mentioned areas as well as civil and military service providers are part of the target group. Youth councils as well as school and student representatives are organized within the GPA-djp Jugend.
Web links
- Website of the GPA-djp
- Website of the GPA-djp youth
- Chronicle up to the founding of the djp 2003 ( Memento from March 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖGB membership statistics total by trade unions ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of the GPA-djp. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
- ^ Membership statistics of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation. In: oegb.at , accessed on October 9, 2012
- ↑ 160 collective agreements per year. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
- ↑ orf.at: Barbara Teiber elected as the new GPA chairwoman . Article dated June 25, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018.
- ↑ Service area of the GPA-djp
- ^ History of the djp
- ↑ Patient choice : Franz Bittner's curriculum vitae . Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ Last radio address by the Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg. (Audio, 2:51 minutes) with a declaration of non-violence in the event of a German invasion. In: Austria “on the word”. Austrian Media Library , March 11, 1938, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ The history of the GPA-djp. In: gpa-djp.at . Retrieved September 17, 2019.
- ^ The educational program of the GPA-djp
- ↑ Interest groups in the GPA-djp. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .
- ^ GPA-djp youth
