scholarly journals Proposals for the Future of Internal Crowdsourcing: A Trade Union-Based Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Welf Schröter
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
German Trade ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Union Representative ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe “FST” personnel network “Forum Soziale Technikgestaltung” (Forum for Social Forms of Technology) from the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) of Baden-Württemberg has been examining the subjects informatization of work and digitization since 1991. More than 4600 women and men from works councils and staff councils, union representative bodies and the workforce, large companies, small- and medium-sized enterprises, the manual trades, as well as self-employed people have been involved in an exchange about their experiences in production and services and in administrations. Against this background, and drawing on the accumulated knowledge gained from experience, the following proposals for the future of internal crowdsourcing have been derived. The proposals represent a trade union-based approach.

German Trade Unions, Their History, and the Use of Memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Stefan Berger
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
German Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
German Trade ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Future

This article summarizes the results of the work of a commission of the German Trade Union Confederation, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), on the memory cultures of social democracy and trade unionism in Germany and highlights its recommendations on how to strengthen the public memory of the achievements of trade unionism in German society. It argues that the contemporary memory cultures are highly deficient and in need of a major boost in order to make trade unionism fit for the struggles of the twenty-first century. Memory will be a crucial resource for trade unions, as it gives them a “practical past” with which to operate in the presence with a view to strengthening and protecting workers’ rights in the future.

Status and Prospects of German Trade-Unions and Works Councils

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Marcuse
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
People's Party ◽  
German Trade ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Status

This chapter evaluates the status and prospects of trade unions and works councils in Nazi Germany. The report details that the German trade-union movement has developed in a different direction from American unionism. The German unions were affiliated with political parties: the Free Trade-Unions with the Social Democratic Party; the Christian-National Trade-Unions with the Center Party and the German National People's Party; and the German Trade Associations (Hirsch-Duncker) with the Democratic Party. The chapter first provides an overview of trade unionism in Germany prior to Adolf Hitler's ascension to power before discussing the spontaneous revival of trade unionism after the collapse of the Nazi regime. It then considers trade-union development in the Allied zones of occupation and in the Soviet zone of occupation, along with the revival of the works councils or shop stewards movement. It also addresses the question of the “political neutrality” of the trade-union movement.

African Ephemeral Material

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Central Place ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein

During 1963 and 1964 the Africana Newsletter published regularly surveys of ephemeral material (party pamphlets, rare newspapers, constitutions, reports of congresses, trade-union literature, hard-to-find government documents) on Portuguese African nationalist movements, the Camerouns, Nigeria, and the Congo. This material was then filmed and deposited in the Center for Research Libraries (formerly the Mid-West Inter-Library Center), Chicago, Illinois, for use by members of the Cooperative African Microfilm Project (CAMP). The Editors of the African Studies Bulletin would like to continue this program of locating, listing, and collating rare African ephemeral materials. Please send inventories of your collection to the Editors. The original plea by Immanuel Wallerstein to cooperate in this program is reprinted from the Africana Newsletter: All of us when we go to Africa acquire, sometimes systematically, more often haphazardly, mimeographed and printed documents which we store, often unused, hopefully to be used in the future. Scattered issues of journals, when added together, can make nearly complete collections. I have certainly collected many odd items which are of little immediate use to me but which might be invaluable to someone doing particular pieces of research. I would hope that photostats of all these items could be collected in a central place and thus be available to all scholars.

Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110358
Author(s):  
Simon Ress ◽  
Florian Spohr
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
German Trade ◽  
The Impact

This contribution scrutinises how introducing a statutory minimum wage of EUR 8.50 per hour, in January 2015, impacted German employees’ decision with regard to union membership. Based on representative data from the Labour Market and Social Security panel, the study applies a logistic difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach on entries into and withdrawals from unions in the German Trade Union Confederation (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB). The results show no separate effect on withdrawals from or entries into unions after the minimum wage introduction for those employees who benefited financially from it, but a significant increase of entries overall. Thus, unions’ campaign for a minimum wage strengthened their position in total but did not reverse the segmentation of union membership patterns.

scholarly journals WORKERS’ REPRESENTATIVES

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Hurbean
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Union Representative ◽  
The Law

This study deals with the institution representatives of the employees, the onlypossibility, regulated by the law, to defense and promotion the interests of employees, in theabsence of a trade union representative at the level of the unit. Therefore, we are in thepresence of alternative to trade union representation, whereas, in principle, coexistencebetween the two is out of the question.Topics studied has known substantive changes with the entry into force of the Law No40/2011, both in respect of the conditions of eligibility of representatives of the employees, aswell as in respect of measures of legal protection for them. Therefore, we want to do acomparative overview of the old and new provisions equal in the matter.

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