ULA - United Leaders Association

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The ULA e. V. (Name affix: United Leaders Association, Association of German Management Associations ) is an amalgamation of management associations of the German economy. Founded in 1951, it traded under the name of "Union of Senior Employees" until 2003 and under the name of "ULA - German Leadership Association" between 2003 and 2014. Since 2015 it has had "Association of German Leaders' Associations" and the slogan "United Leaders Association" as suffixes. Members are currently seventeen organizations, which represent a total of around 70,000 executives, non-tariff managers, young managers and students. This makes the association the largest association of executives in Germany (as of 2020).

The association represents the common socio-political, social, legal and economic interests of executives in politics, business and society.

Member associations

The following organizations are united under the umbrella of the ULA: VAA , VDL , VGA , bdvb , BVBC , Völklinger Kreis , Association of Specialists and Managers (VFF), Federal Association of Higher Administrative Officials (bvhd), the management associations of Volkswagen AG ( Volkswagen Management Association ) , Deutsche Post AG ( Deutsche Post DHL Management Association ) and Telekom AG ( syntra ), the Barcelona-based group of German-speaking executives (KDF), the Medicine Management Association , EAF Berlin , BPW Germany , EWMD and Vereinigung Cockpit .

Range of services

On behalf of its member organizations, the ULA represents political interests in politics, business and the media. In her work she is dedicated to questions of labor, social and tax law, location issues and management issues.

The respective organizations themselves provide services that are directly related to members within the framework of their statutes. Several associations offer advice, assistance and legal protection on issues relating to labor law, inventor protection law and social security law. They publish specialist information and organize advanced training events for specialists and managers. The elected speaker committees of the executive staff receive special support in order to achieve their goals .

ULA in Europe

The Confédération Européenne des Cadres ( CEC-European Managers ) is the European umbrella organization for management associations in the EU. It includes both the national umbrella organizations for managers and the European industry associations for managers. The ULA is a founding member of the CEC-European Managers. The CEC-European Managers is one of the six recognized social partners and represents well over a million executives in the private and public sectors in Europe.

history

The ULA was founded in 1951 by a joint decision of several associations, including the "Verband Angestellter Akademiker der chemical Industrie e. V. ”(VAA) and the“ Association of senior employees e. V. “(VELA) was founded. In the following years she worked to ensure that executives were securely anchored in labor and corporate law.

The Works Constitution Act was passed with a legal definition of executive employees in Section 5 (3) BetrVG. In 1976, the executive employees were entitled to a seat on the supervisory board under the Codetermination Act . In 1987 the Confédération Européenne des Cadres ( CEC-European Managers ) was founded in Paris . The administrative headquarters of the CEC-European Managers are in Brussels . In 1988, the law on speakers' committees for executive staff (SprAuG) was passed, which came into force on January 1, 1989.

The European Parliament passed the Gil Robles Resolution in 1993, with which the salaried managers are recognized as an independent group of employees . In 1999, the ULA moved its headquarters from Essen to Berlin .

President

  • 1951–1953: Max Schellmann
  • 1953–1954: Heinrich Wiegel
  • 1954–1955: Ferdinand Grüll
  • 1956–1957: Herbert Ossenbühl
  • 1958–1959: Horst Elsner
  • 1960–1961: Paul Diestel
  • 1962–1963: Ferdinand Grüll
  • 1964–1965: Karl-Heinz Rüsch
  • 1966–1967: Friederich Füchtenbusch
  • 1968–1970: Johannes Gottwald
  • 1971–1972: Franz Salzer
  • 1973–1975: Walter Schwarz
  • 1976–1978: Hans Kern
  • 1979–1982: Friedrich Ische
  • 1982–1986: Dieter Lueg
  • 1986–1991: Hans Kern
  • 1991–1992: Gerd Wagner
  • 1992–1995: Dieter Lueg
  • 1995–2002: Peter Weber
  • 2002–2005: Manfred Göbels
  • 2005–2008: Joachim Betz
  • May – December 2008: Klaus Armbrüster
  • 2009–2011: Joachim Betz
  • 2011–2014: Wolfgang Bruckmann
  • since May 2014: Roland Leroux

The current general manager is Ludger Ramme .

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