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Organizing is a strategy developed by US-based unions in order to spur employees to be active and to run projects. For their implementation, the union uses full-time organizers. This method, developed in the USA, is also used as a tool to counter drastically sinking membership levels. In Germany organizing is being discussed and tested especially at ver.di. The first organizing project in Germany took place in the security industry in Hamburg. - Interview with Christian Gaterman, who worked as an organizer in this project.
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team:
Bärbel Schönafinger
latest clip entry:
12-03-2008 20:39
number of medias in topic:
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann, who as full-time employee with ver.di, has organised for the workers in the Hamburg security trade. An "Organizing union" would have to be fierce. It would have to abandon the belief in a social partnership with the enterprises. It would have to spend most of its means on Organizing and open an Organizing school to provide the main actors with the ... more |
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length: 3,46 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann - The union has no good answers to precarious and illegalized employment and is in a defensive position. Gatermann wonders aloud if Organizing can be a way out of this situation. He found the method promising as it puts forward an attempt to mobilize the union basis and to maneuver it into a position to advocate its own interests. |
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length: 2,44 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann - A labor contract containing a 5 % pay raise within two years was negotiated. Now the meetings of those actively involved "somehow" continue to exist, but the Organizing project was, according to Gatermann, too short to provide those involved in the security industry of Hamburg with a strong structure. |
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length: 5,09 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann - For ver.di the project in the security business of Hamburg was a success. There are different attitudes among the colleagues of ver.di, says Gatermann. Some found it a success that the campaign achieved 200 new ver.di members, others emphasise that the people at the basis were strengthened. |
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length: 3,03 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann - The Organizers directly spoke with the employees and founded a club for the actives. They tried to "get the point across to the people that they could take their problems into their own hands". The work of the Organizers is permanently controlled by the head of the project and the original targets are put into comparison. A battlesome attitude towards ... more |
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length: 4,52 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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| 26 February 2008, Interview with Christian Gatermann - For half a year he worked for ver.di in Hamburg as a wholetime Organizer in the security business Organizing project. |
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length: 2,06 min
| date: 12.03.2008
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