Jörg Hofmann (trade unionist)

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Jörg Hofmann (born December 3, 1955 in Oppelsbohm ) is a German trade unionist . Since October 20, 2015 he has been the first chairman of the Metallurgy Union (IG Metall). Before that, he was second chairman and before that district manager of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg and thus negotiator of the union for numerous (pilot) collective bargaining agreements. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft since November 20, 2015 .

Life and education

Jörg Hofmann is the son of a couple of teachers who are often volunteers. He grew up with two siblings in Oppelsbohm on the edge of the Remstal in Württemberg . After his school career and training in agriculture, Jörg Hofmann studied economics and sociology at the universities of Stuttgart-Hohenheim , Paris and Bremen . Hofmann has a daughter.

Trade unionists

The economist initially worked as a research assistant at the University of Hohenheim and later as a freelance consultant for works councils with a focus on new technologies and rationalization concepts. From 1987, as a trade union secretary at IG Metall Stuttgart v. a. Small and medium-sized businesses. In 2000, he moved to the Baden-Württemberg district management as wage secretary. In September 2003 he succeeded Berthold Huber in the office of district manager of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg. On November 25, 2013 he was elected second chairman of IG Metall and took over the responsibility. a. for the functional areas of company and industry policy as well as collective bargaining policy and for the topic “Future of Work / Industry 4.0”. Jörg Hofmann has been the first chairman of IG Metall since October 20, 2015. He is a member of the supervisory boards of Robert Bosch GmbH and Volkswagen AG .

Focus

Tariff policy

The Baden-Württemberg district is a traditional pilot district for collective bargaining agreements in the metal and electrical industries. As negotiator for the union in the district, Hofmann played a key role in IG Metall's collective bargaining policy. Groundbreaking collective bargaining agreements on qualitative topics such as job security , working hours, qualifications and partial retirement , but also important degrees to increase the wages of employees bear his signature. Particularly noteworthy are the collective wage framework agreement for workers and employees (ERA-TV) 2003 and the “ Pforzheim Agreement ” 2004, which allow temporary deviations from the collective agreement to secure employment and investments.

Under Hofmann, IG Metall has succeeded for the first time in more than twenty years in enforcing improvements in working hours through collective agreements: From 2019, employees in the metal and electrical industry will receive an additional collectively agreed payment of 27.5 percent of a monthly wage. Employees with children, relatives in need of care or in shift work can convert the additional allowance into additional days off. In addition, all employees are entitled to shorten their working hours to up to 28 hours per week for up to 24 months. The Tagesspiegel commented on the collective bargaining agreement: “With its call for the introduction of the 28-hour week, IG Metall is setting the trend. Once again."

At the beginning of 2019, 260,000 employees who look after children, look after relatives or work shifts applied for eight additional days off.

Industrial policy

In his various functions, Hofmann promoted an innovative industrial policy in the interests of the employees. In Baden-Württemberg, for example, he was a member of the state government's innovation council, the advisory board for sustainable development, the advisory board of the state agency "e-mobil" and the board of the state agency for lightweight construction. V. and some other bodies. Jörg Hofmann is a member of the executive committee of the "Future of Industry" network founded in June 2016.

Future of work

In his function as first chairman of IG Metall, Hofmann u. a. responsible for the topic “future of work”, d. H. dealing with the changes in the world of work due to digitization and Industry 4.0 . While he was still district manager in Baden-Württemberg, he initiated the IG Metall employee survey in 2013, in which over half a million members and non-members of IG Metall took part. From the results of the survey, the union derives a wide variety of mandates for shaping the working world of the future. A central topic is the qualification of employees for a fair participation in the opportunities of digital change. With the entry into the subsidized part-time training - for Hofmann a central goal of collective bargaining - an important step in this direction could be taken in the 2015 collective bargaining movement in the metal and electrical industry. Hofmann is co-chair of the “Work 4.0” platform of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) and a member of the management committee of the Industry 4.0 platform of the Federal Ministries for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and Education and Research (BMBF).

Political party

Hofmann is a member of the SPD .

Honor

Publications

  • Will the hiring manager soon be called computers? , in: Co-determination 1982.
  • Performance and wage policy in BDE / FST systems , in: Bleicher, Siegfried / Stamm, Jürgen (ed.); Factory of the future, Hamburg 1988.
  • Porsche - a plant arises in old buildings , in: La lettre du Gerpisa, Paris 1997.
  • How much differentiation does the collective agreement require? in: Beerhorst, Joachim, Berger, Jens-Jean (eds.), IG Metall on the way to the center ?, Hamburg 2003.
  • Climbing without scaffolding? Unemployment and social security are closely linked - social Darwinism cannot be the solution , in: Bad Boller Perspektiven: Bad Boller Perspektiven - Volume 7 - Reforms for the labor market, sustainable financial policy, responsible globalization, competition of marketplaces, o. O. 2005.
  • Keyword “trade unions” , in: Köhler, Richard / Küpper, Hans-Ulrich / Pfingsten, Andreas (revision): Encyclopedia of Business Administration (EdBWL) 1 - Concise Dictionary of Business Administration (HWB), 6th edition, Stuttgart 2007.
  • Strategically countering growing burdens for employees , in: RATIO - News from RKW Baden-Württemberg No. 4/2012.
  • Flexicurity in post-crisis labor markets - more flexibility and security needed? in: European Commission (ed.), The Future of European Labor Markets. Brussels 2011.
  • with Steffen, Christian: The new world of work - challenges and opportunities , in: Papmehl, André / Tümmers, Hans J. (Ed.): The world of work in the 21st century, Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Wetzel, Detlef / Hofmann, Jörg (eds.): Guillaume Duval, Model Germany? No thanks! , Hamburg 2014.
  • Wetzel, Detlef / Hofmann, Jörg / Urban, Hans-Jürgen (eds.): Industrial work and labor policy. Areas of cooperation between science and trade unions , Hamburg 2014.
  • Qualitative collective bargaining policy as a future task , in: Schröder Lothar / Urban, Hans-Jürgen (ed.): Gute Arbeit 2015 edition, Qualitative collective bargaining policy - work design - qualification, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
  • Active wage policy in Europe , in: WSI-Mitteilungen 4/2014.
  • Hatzfeld, Nicolas / Berta, Giuseppe / Hofmann, Jörg / Stewart, Paul: "Les syndicats et les travailleurs de l'automobile: un bouquet de trajectoires (1960–1985)", in: Pigenet, Michel et al., "L ' apogée des syndicalismes en Europe occidentale ”, 1960–1985, Paris 2005.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The organs of the Volkswagen Group. In: volkswagenag.com. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ IG Metall: Official curriculum vitae. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Editor IG Metall: Takeover of the metal collective agreement. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tagesspiegel, February 6, 2018, p. 5
  5. ↑ IG Metall editorial team: Annual press conference 2019. Accessed on February 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berglen