Herbert May

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Herbert Mai (born September 5, 1947 in Dalheim-Rödgen ) is a German former trade union official and administrative specialist. He from 1995 to 2000 Chairman of the trade union public services, transport and traffic today (OTV) ver.di . Mai was a member of the Executive Board of Fraport AG as Labor Director from April 2001 to September 2012 .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Mönchengladbach in 1964, Mai completed an administrative internship with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia until 1966. As early as 1964 he joined the ÖTV and took over trade union functions in the ÖTV district youth committee in Düsseldorf and was elected to the ÖTV federal youth committee in 1966. He was a youth representative and shop steward . In 1965 he became a member of the SPD . In 1969 he completed his training for the higher administrative service and worked as a government inspector in the Düsseldorf district government .

In October 1971 he became a full-time trade unionist and initially worked as a district youth secretary for ÖTV Hessen. As a part-time job, he attended the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Frankfurt am Main. The ÖTV Hessen elected him in 1980 as deputy district chairman and in 1982 as chairman. He held this office until 1995. In 1995 he was elected to succeed Monika Wulf-Mathies as chairman of the ÖTV and was confirmed in office in 1996. In 1996 he also became President of the European Public Service Federation (EPSU) and President of the Public Services International (PSI).

Mai was seen as a reformer and modernizer who acted pragmatically. He succeeded in downsizing the union bodies and reducing the number of full-time union workers in a socially acceptable manner.

The collective bargaining for the public service in 2000 weakened his position after Mai had campaigned for the arbitration ruling to be accepted after the arbitration , but the Great Wage Commission rejected the proposal and the ÖTV members voted in the strike ballot for strike . Mai started new negotiations.

May was considered a candidate for the chairmanship of the United Service Union (ver.di), founded in 2001 , in which the ÖTV and four other unions have merged. At the ÖTV trade union conference in Leipzig in November 2000 , Mai resigned as ÖTV chairman after losing the vote on ver.di.

He was succeeded by Frank Bsirske , who became ver.di chairman in 2001.

Mai switched to business and was from May 2001 to September 2012 as a member of the Executive Board Labor Director of Fraport AG. During this time he was Chairman of the Airports Section of the Association of Municipal Employers' Associations (VKA) and a member of the VKA Presidium. In the collective bargaining disputes between Fraport and the air traffic control union (GdF) in February 2012, he took the employer's side of the view that smaller branch unions can attack the foundations of collective bargaining in a large company. He also called for a change in the law that only provides for one collective agreement per company and thus severely restricts the opportunities for smaller unions to act as independent collective bargaining partners.

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  1. ↑ Herbert Mai remains Labor Director at Fraport AG. Press release from Fraport AG from September 28, 2010
  2. ↑ Peter Gillies: ÖTV boss Herbert Mai will need a good connection to the Chancellor In: Die Welt from June 6, 2000
  3. ↑ a b c Fraport AG: Herbert Mai
  4. ↑ Erika Martens: Public service: A portrait of the ÖTV chairman Herbert Mai . In: Die Zeit 1996
  5. ↑ Resignation plunges ÖTV into leadership crisis ; in: Manager Magazin from May 8, 2000
  6. ^ Herbert Mai - A man of soft tones ; dpa article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 8, 2000
  7. ^ Alfons Frese: Federal President Seit 'an Seit' with Bsirske ; in: Der Tagesspiegel from September 18, 2011
  8. ↑ Herbert Weber: Fraport Labor Director attacks GdF: Union "harmful to social peace" ; Focus-Online, February 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME May, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists (ÖTV) and managers
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalheim-Rödgen