Decent work
Good work is the flag word for an initiative of the German trade unions. It serves as a model of a modern, humane working world, and go back to look at the quality of working conditions addressed.
Good work is also defined by the DGB index, with the development of the quality of work in Germany is observed as well as the title of a magazine published since 1988 "Good work: health and job design " in the Bund- Verlag.
History of the mission statement Good work
The concept builds on the good work pursued in the 1970s and 1980s Project " humanization of working life " to. Good work also is based on the - on the level of ambition of industrialized countries adapted and further developed - Mission Statement of the International Labour Organisation of "Decent Work" ( " decent work").
As labor policy model, the term Good work was first introduced by IG Metall in the early 1990s in the collective bargaining discussion about a "Tariff Reform 2000 ".
Faced with major company reorganization measures in the German economy, the unions had focused in the 1990s on a policy of employment and income security. The theme Good work came with it only in 2002 with the IG Metall union conference " Good job - people -friendly working arrangements as a union task for the future " again. In October 2003, the formerly IG Metall project Good work, it was decided as a cross -cutting issue for union representation. However, a comprehensive theme of union labor policy Good work was only in 2006 when the DGB Congress joint efforts for a "humane and good work " were adopted. There, the performance of the Index " Good Work" was initiated.
The union model Good work
The guiding principle of various trade union tasks are connected:
- It is considered a counter-concept for the prevention of poor work, so against deterioration already achieved qualitative work standards such as shorter working hours or group work, as it is associated with the spread of precarious employment.
- Good work also represents a concept that unilateral rationalization and job cuts projects are opposite and increase in the design of working conditions, the ability to act for employee representatives.
- "Last but not least " is seen Good work as future concept that the union policy free themselves from the defensive and the social imagination to inspire of planned restrictions concerned.
The mission statement of 'good work represents the future concept of union labor policy in Germany
Politics and Society
The term Good job gains in the political and social space slowly in importance.
On the initiative of the then Federal Government in 2002 trade unions, employers, social security institutions, state, federal and company in a " New Quality of Work" (INQA ) have come together in May. With INQA the social interests of employees are to be connected in healthy and health-promoting working conditions with the economic interests of the companies.
In a European Council Resolution of May 2007, the European Union has incorporated the concept of 'good work' in their ' Community strategy on health and safety at work for the period 2007 to 2012 ".
In SPD policy statement of October 2007 Good work has been included in the new SPD - basic program.
In churches and social organizations is 'good work' is increasingly discussed as a concept for a humane work environment.