Gisela Kessler

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Gisela Kessler (born December 31, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 14, 2014 in Nuremberg ) was a German trade unionist. She was deputy chairwoman of the IG Medien . She became known for her commitment to the Heinze women .

Life

Gisela Kessler learned the occupation of the post office in Frankfurt clerk . There she was the youth representative and later deputy chairwoman of the staff council of the Deutsche Bundespost . In 1965 she became pregnant and raised her son with the help of her mother. In 1966, the union sent her to the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt for an annual course . From 1967 to 1971 she was the DGB trade union secretary in legal protection (labor law) in Wiesbaden and represented hundreds of employees in labor courts. She held seminars on legal issues at the trade union school in Springen . From 1971 to 1991 she was woman secretary in the main board of the union pressure and paper and to 1995 deputy chairman of the union media - and then at ver.di .

From 1979 Gisela Kessler organized the solidarity movement with the Heinze women and their struggle for equal pay for equal work. 29 female employees from the film development department of the Gelsenkirchen company Photo Heinze sued for equal pay for equal work. The case attracted nationwide attention. The women were supported with a signature list that contained 45,000 names. The Heinze women won the sensational labor court trial in 1981 in the last instance. Gisela Kessler said after the verdict:

“Now the female colleagues in the companies are challenged. The works councils must examine the excess tariffs from the point of view of equal treatment. If discrimination arises, you must first fight in the company, but if necessary also with further processes. "

- Gisela Kessler

In 1980 Gisela Kessler was one of the first to sign the Krefeld appeal against the stationing of Pershing II missiles and cruise missiles in Central Europe.

Gisela Kessler was a member of the DKP . In 2004 she opened the 1st Federal Congress of the WAsG Association . In 2005 she was a founding member of the WASG party and became a member of the Bavarian State Board.

Gisela Kessler was deputy chairwoman of the council of elders of the party Die Linke .

She died on May 14, 2014.

literature

  • Ilse Lenz : The new women's movement in Germany - farewell to the small difference . Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 3-531-14729-3 , pp. 175-177.
  • Marianne Kaiser: We want equal wages - Documentation on the struggle of the 29 "Heinze" women . Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-14623-1 .
  • The wind blows from the front . In: Die Zeit , No. 36/1982, interview with Gisela Kessler
  • Portrait in the weekly newspaper Friday 23 December 2005
  • Hendrik Müller: Gisela Kessler 1935-2014. In: From the printing association to the unified union. 150 years of verdi. Berlin 2016, pp. 58–61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marianne Kaiser: The struggle of the Heinze women for equal pay
  2. ↑ Christine Becker: None would have lasted alone , p. 11 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Nuclear death threatens us all . ( Memento of December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1981
  4. ↑ CALL FOR THE SECOND FORUM OF THE KREFELDER INITIATIVE “NUCLEAR DEATH THREATENS US ALL - NO NUCLEAR MISSILE IN EUROPE” - ON NOVEMBER 21, 1981 IN DORTMUND - (wording) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  5. ^ Council of Elders Die Linke ( Memento from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Farewell to a militant union woman
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2014
Place of death Nuremberg