Industrial Relations in Germany‑ Contexts, Ideology, and Unions

IV‑ Worker Organizations‑ The Trade Unions

•Unions in the Post WWII Period

•Industrial unionism

•Single major federation‑ again to avoid disunity

–DGB‑ German Trade Union Federation

–Founded 1949 taking 100 existing unions and merging them to 16

–Small Civil Service and Christian Confederations


	Unions in the Post WWII Period
		Right to join guaranteed in Constitution

	Industrial unionism
		Partly to avoid earlier disunity which was felt to have helped Nazi's to power

	Founded 1949 taking 100 existing unions and merging them to 16
		Since 1990s have merged into 8 unions