Company union

Yellow or yellow unions organizations are often ordoliberal oriented unions. They object to the " red unions " of the represented socialist or social democratic ideas. They represented an association of workers who reject the trade union struggle, pro-business experience, strive for a friendly relationship with the entrepreneurs and supported by these morally and financially. In works they limit their potential legal instruments accordingly.

History

The first yellow union probably originated in France during a strike in the iron mills of Creusot in 1899 as a counter-movement to the syndicalist red unions that dominated the French labor movement at that time.

For the name, there are several explanations; maybe he goes back to the yellow tassel that used the first yellow unions as an icon. Another assumption based on the fact that the associations in Paris covering the windows of their houses association with yellow paper, so as to extend from the socialist associations, which used red paper to delineate. On the one hand the emergence of yellow unions in various French companies seem to reflect an authentic resistance just Catholic workers against syndicalism and the constant strikes, on the other hand made ​​very quickly the entrepreneur use of the idea and put the yellow union for their own purposes one.

Under the leadership of Pierre Biétry, a former supporter of the syndicalist CGT, it came between 1900 and 1910 to try to shape from the organized in various large companies yellow unions a political movement. A central idea of this movement was the participation of the workers in the company's profit and the peaceful co-operation of labor and capital. At the same time the movement of the emergent after the Dreyfus Affair New Right and the conservative Catholicism was close and took many anti-Semitic ideas that were prevalent in the members' magazine Le Jaune. But could Biétrys Federation of yellow unions among the workers not permanent foothold and disappeared around 1910 from the political scene.

In Germany there were about 1905 founding of the first yellow unions, such as Siemens or metal workers in Augsburg. Shortly after the end of the First World War, the then German Employers' Associations committed in Stinnes Legiens agreement to cease their support so far for the yellow trade unions and the " red unions " for the first time as social partners recognize. To this day, there are always attempts to establish yellow unions, such as the AUB or GNBZ that tries the private postal industry to avert the minimum wage in the mail carrier industry.

In Austria this is particularly the Independent Trade Union stated; which was organized in 1928 primarily in the farms of the Austro -Alpine Mining Company and the German National anti- democratic Styrian homeland security was close.