TRANSNET Gewerkschaft
The Transnet - Railway Workers' Union of Germany ( GdED, own spelling Transnet ) was a union of German Trade Unions (DGB ), headquartered in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. You merged on 30 November 2010 with the Transport Workers Union GDBA for Railway and Transport union ( ECG).
History
The union was founded on 8 December 1896 in Hamburg as a union of railwaymen, called himself but by as early as 1897 in Association of Railwaymen. 1908 belonged to the union of the Empire section of the railway workers of the German Transport Workers' Association and has been active since 1916 as a German Railwaymen's Federation. In 1925, she went along with the German railway union officials and candidate and became the unit Association of German Railway Workers. The unit association was disbanded in 1933 after Hitler came to power.
On March 25, 1948, she was re-established under the name of Railway Workers' Union of Germany ( GdED ). She was a founding member of the DGB. The changes in the rail ( privatization, etc.) in the 1990s, the union changed its name to Transnet Railroad Workers' Union.
In early 1990, founded employees of the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR a free railway union outside of the Free German Trade Union Federation ( fdgb ), the Union of Railwaymen ( GdE ). On 25 October 1990, the GdE GdED joined during an extraordinary union day in Kassel. In 1990 it consisted of 320,000 members. The end of 1993 the membership stood at 451,000.
1994 Federal and the Reichsbahn were merged. From this point on, the company German railway sources said. The DB was founded as a corporation and thus formally privatized. At the same time the rail market was opened up to other providers. The GdED opened accordingly for employees of private or so -called non - federally owned ( NE ) pathways. Following the principle of "one operation - a union " also organizes employees of companies belonging to the DB Group to be without " railroader " in the true sense. To take account of this change, the union changed in the middle of May 2000 its name officially in Transnet (short for TRANsport, service and NETs ).
Mid-2000 was one of the union of 340,000 members, including 50,000 non- railroaders.
The Transnet had around 250,000 members in October 2007. She was a member at the international level by the International Transport Workers 'Federation ( ITF) and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF). As of 2002, Transnet cooperated with the Transport Workers Union GDBA. In summer 2005, this cooperation was consolidated by the formation of a collective bargaining unit.
In 2008, the number of members decreased by 4.9 percent to 227 690. The reasons for this change of the former union president Hansen to Deutsche Bahn and many deaths were named among older members.
For members there was a monthly information magazine entitled Transnet Inform This magazine was published in November 2010 for the last time and was replaced by ballast imtakt from December 2010.
The rail union Transnet was with the union German Federal Railroad officials and candidates ( GDBA ) merged. For this purpose, was founded on 30 November 2010, the new Railway and Transport union ( ECG). The Transnet brought 230,000 members and GDBA 40,000 members in the new union a. This was the largest merger of the unions since the founding of Verdi in 2001.
Criticism
Transnet was in the criticism because she entered the only union of the railway sector for the partial privatization of the railway. Critics accused Transnet before to be no independent trade union anymore, but only the long arm of Deutsche Bahn AG. The approximately 120,000 employees organized into Transnet Deutsche Bahn received numerous advantages, was not due to the other workers. So a special, financed by the DB, funds for social services came up. A report by the auditors of the Deutsche Bahn in 2002 criticized a variety of favors for Transnet works. So Transnet councils would have received under other wages up to 85 percent above the level of tariffs.
Also, the former capital privatization friendly course the union was criticized. According to media reports, the union hoped for a funded Liquiditätszuflüssige expansion after an IPO of the company's membership increases. In the summer of 2006, they were organized in Transnet workers in a warning strike for a capital privatization. In November 2008, after the departure of Norbert Hansen, the union announced on their Trade Union Congress of wanting to check their previous position on the cash privatization.
The former Transnet chairman Norbert Hansen joined in May 2008, the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn. Critics accused him then to have this change prepared by his advocacy of railway privatization.
The union Transnet Rail has commissioned between 1994 and 1998 to examine to what extent Transnetmitglieder pay their dues in the Articles of Association according to height. Another balance has declined in 2008 due to changes in privacy policies rail.