List of trade unions in Austria
The 7 sub-unions (as of autumn 2011) of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) are:
- Construction Wood Union (GBH)
- Union of Community Employees , Arts, Media, Sports and Liberal Professions (Younion (since 2015) - formerly GDG-KMSfB)
- Public Service Union (GÖD)
- Post and Telecommunications Union (GPF)
- PRO-GE union (production union )
- Union of Private Employees, Printing, Journalism, Paper (GPA-DJP)
- Union vida (transport and services union )
Recent restructuring:
- The metal-textile (GMT) and agricultural-food-enjoyment (GANG) trade unions merged on May 9, 2006 to form the new metal-textile-food trade union
- The unions of railway workers (GdE), trade, transport, traffic (HTV) and hotel, hospitality, personal service (HGPD) announced on April 13, 2006 at a joint press conference the establishment of a joint transport and service union ; vida represents around 150,000 members
- The private workers unions (GPA) and printing, journalism, paper (DJP) merged in 2007 to form the GPA-DJP; this was at the time and is still the strongest branch union.
- In June 2009 the union of community workers (GdG) merged with the union for art, media, sport, liberal professions (KMSfB) to form GdG-KMSfB; This represents over 150,000 members in the sectors of service, salary and pension law
- In the autumn of the same year, the Metal-Textile-Food (GMTN) union, founded in 2006, and the chemical workers' union (GdC) merged to form the PRO-GE union .
- infra - The alliance of the infrastructure unions (GdG, KMSfB, GBH, GPF, HGPD, HTV and GdE) of the early 2000s has largely lost its importance due to the restructuring of 2007-2009
literature
- Andreas Khol : Unions in Austria . In: Hans Rühle , Hans-Joachim Veen (Hrsg.): Unions in the democracies of Western Europe . Volume 2: Great Britain, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark (= studies on politics . Vol. 8). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-506-79308-X , pp. 239-326.
Footnotes
- ↑ Article Austria: Vida - the new transport and service union on newstix
- ^ Union of Private Employees, Printing, Journalism, Paper . In: Wikipedia . September 17, 2019 ( wikipedia.org [accessed June 22, 2020]).
- ↑ infra-Online is restarting ( memento of the original from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, 2004; former website www.oegb-infra.at down today
