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The Swiss Trade Union Federation ( German: Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund, SGB; French: Union syndicale suisse; Italian: Unione Sindicale Svizzera, USS) is the largest national trade union center in Switzerland .
In 1880, the Workers' Federation dissolved itself into two separate wings; the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB/USS) and the Social Democratic Party. For most of the latter half of the 20th century, trade unions enjoyed relatively stable and secure positions within the country's consensus-oriented industrial relations system.
The federation was established in 1918 by most of the country's trade unions for non-manual workers. These included the Swiss Craftsmen's Association, the Union Helvetia, and the Swiss Association of Technicians, but more than half the membership came from the Swiss Commercial Association.
History. The federation was formed in December 2002 by the merger of the Christian National Union Confederation (CNG) and the Confederation of Swiss Employees' Associations (VSA). [1] Through the CNG, Travail.Suisse traces into roots back to 1907. Initially, the federation represented around 170,000 workers.
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) is made up of ten global union federations (which affiliates national-level sectoral trade unions), the largest international federation of national centres (the ITUC) and the trade union body to the OECD (TUAC).
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...
In 1928, affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation, and it also absorbed the Union of Federal Telephone and Telegraph Workers. [1] [2] By 1954, the union had adopted its final name, and had 16,191 members, the lower-paid, uniformed employees of the communications sector. [3] By 1997, its membership had grown to 28,360. [4]
The Swiss Commercial Association (German: Kaufmännischer Verband Schweiz, KV Schweiz; French: Société suisse des employés de commerce) is a trade union representing white collar private sector workers in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1873, with the merger of several local unions of shopkeepers. Initially abbreviated as the SKV, by ...