Gisela Kessler

Gisela Kessler ( born December 31, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German trade unionist. She was deputy chairman of the IG Medien. She became well known through their use in the Heinze women.

Life

Gisel Kessler learned at the post office in Frankfurt am Main the profession of clerk. There she was a youth representative and later deputy staff council president of the German Federal Post Office. In 1965 she became pregnant and withdrew her son with great support of her mother. The union sent in 1966 to an annual study at the Academy of working in Frankfurt. From 1967 to 1971 she was the DGB trade union secretary in the legal (labor ) in Wiesbaden and represented hundreds of workers to labor courts. In the union school in jumping she held seminars on legal issues. From 1971 to 1991 she was woman secretary in the main board of the IG printing and paper until 1995 deputy chairman of the IG Medien - today in Ver.di.

From 1979, organized Gisela Kessler solidarity movement with the Heinze - women and their struggle for equal pay for equal work. 29 female employees from the Department of Film Development Gelsenkirchen company Photo Heinze complained to equal pay for equal work. The case attracted nationwide attention. With a petition containing 45,000 names, the women were supported. The Heinze women won the sensational Labour Court process 1981 in the last instance. Gisela Kessler said after the judgment:

"Now the ladies are required in the workplace. The works must check the About tariffs from the standpoint of equal treatment. When discrimination comes up, must first be fought in the operation, if necessary, but also with other processes. "

1980 belonged Gisela Kessler of the first signatories of the Krefeld Appeal against the deployment of Pershing II missiles and cruise missiles in Central Europe.

Gisela Kessler was a member of the DKP. In 2004 she opened the first national convention of the Association WASG. In 2005 she was a founding member of the party WASG and became a member of the Land executive Bavaria.

Gisela Kessler is vice chairman of the Council of Elders of the party Die Linke.

She lives in Nuremberg.