Syna
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| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | Arno Kerst, President |
| Establishment date: | September 12, 1998 |
| Number of members: | 59,506 (2018) |
| Seat : | Olten, Switzerland |
| Website: | https://www.syna.ch |
Syna (from the Greek. "Syn": together, together) is a Swiss interprofessional union , which in the sectors industrial , commercial and service operates. With almost 60,000 members, Syna is the second largest Swiss trade union.
It was created in 1998 from a merger of the “Christian Wood and Construction Workers Association” (CHB), Christian Trade Union for Industry, Trade and Commerce (CMV), “National Association of Free Swiss Workers” (LFSA) and “Swiss Graphic Trade Union” (SGG). In 1999 the “Association of Christian State and Community Personnel” (VCHP) also joined the Syna.
In 1998 Syna came under the umbrella of the Christian National Trade Union Confederation of Switzerland (CNG). Since 2002 it has been a member of Travail.Suisse , a Swiss umbrella organization for employees , and has 24 regional secretariats. According to the union, its activities are based on democracy , Christian social ethics and fair social partnership .
At the 2014 Congress in Brig, Syna set itself the goal of balancing work and leisure. For this reason, Syna is campaigning for a better work-life balance as well as fair and healthy working hours during this congress period. Arno Kerst has been president of the interprofessional union since October 2014.
Web links
- Syna website
- Bernard Degen : National Association of Free Swiss Workers (LFSA). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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- Syna - the union: About Syna. Syna, accessed January 30, 2019 .
- «Social partnership» instead of «class struggle». (No longer available online.) In: the job market. jobindex media ag, August 6, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual report 2018: membership of the member organizations. Travail.Suisse, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Syna increases membership by nine percent. In: news.ch. news.ch, February 16, 2008, accessed on August 15, 2008 .
- ↑ Travail.Suisse - Portrait - Member Associations - Syna. Travail.Suisse, accessed on January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Who is and what does Syna want? (No longer available online.) In: Tagblatt. St.Galler Tagblatt AG, February 13, 2006, archived from the original on November 2, 2010 ; Retrieved August 15, 2008 . 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.
