September strikes

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The September strikes were a series of wildcat strikes in the Federal Republic of Germany in September 1969 . They began on September 2, 1969 with a labor dispute at Hoesch AG in Dortmund, which IG Metall neither planned nor was responsible for. There was a march of workers who had stopped work to the company management building. The demand for a wage increase of thirty pfennigs an hour was accepted by the company management within a very short time.

This successful extraordinary labor dispute was followed by a series of further wildcat strikes in the coming weeks, mainly in the coal and steel industry , but also in the public sector . From September 2nd to 19th, at least 140,000 people in the Ruhr area and Saarland were involved in the work stoppages; later further strikes followed in the Upper Palatinate, Kiel and Bremen. They led to wage increases for more than eight million employees outside of the usual collective bargaining.

literature

  • The September Strikes 1969. Presentation, analysis, documents of the strikes in the steel industry, in mining, in the metalworking industry and other economic sectors . Edited by the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research . Editors Heinz Jung , Josef Schleifstein , Kurt Steinhaus . Institute for Marxist Studies and Research, Frankfurt am Main 1969 ( contributions from the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research 1) 1969 (licensed edition: Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1969 and various pirated prints )
  • Friedemann Schuster: The September Strikes. It depends on the workers! Developed on the basis of a study by the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research in Frankfurt a. M. "The September Strikes 1969" . Marxist sheets, Frankfurt am Main 1969 ( Marxist paperbacks )
  • Michael Schumann with the assistance of Martin Baethge: The September Strikes - Exception or Prelude? An empirical contribution to the analysis of the strike movement in September 1969. Study commissioned by the news magazine Der Spiegel . Sociological Research Institute , Göttingen 1970 ( SOFI research reports )
  • Jürgen Alberts: " Bild " in action. Analysis of the reporting on the September strike in 1969 . In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 15 (1970), pp. 916–933
  • Eckart Hildebrandt: On the analysis of the September strike in 1969 . In: Sozialistische Politik 1970, pp. 71–84 digitized
  • Michael Schumann (Ed.): Using the example of the September strikes - beginning of the reconstruction period of the working class? European Publishing House , Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-434-00162-X .
  • Peter Blie, Birger Ollrogge: The representation of the September strike in 1969 in the union press . 1974 (Free University of Berlin, Master's thesis)
  • Joachim Bergmann : From the September strikes to the economic crisis. Changed conditions of union politics . In: the same (ed.): Contributions to the sociology of the trade unions . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, pp. 7-20
  • Karl Lauschke: The change in company and trade union interest representation after the West German September strike . In: Bernd Gehrke (Ed.): 1968 and the workers. Studies on “Proletarian May” in Europe Nineteen sixty-eight and the workers . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-89965-165-0 , pp. 76-91
  • Peter Birke: Wild strikes in the economic miracle. Labor disputes, trade unions and social movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark . Campus, Frankfurt and New York 2007

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Birke: Wild strikes in the economic miracle. Labor disputes, trade unions and social movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark . Campus, Frankfurt and New York 2007, p. 228.
  2. ↑ Peter Birke: Blurred traces. In: freitag.de . September 9, 2009, accessed September 2, 2019 .