Structures and priorities of German trade union educational work and the work of the DGB BUND

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• Structures and priorities of German trade union
  educational work and the work of the DGB BUND

• Promoters of trade union education
• Nationwide educational programme
• Focus on Europe and international issues
• Additional areas of focus of the DGB Bildungswerk
  BUND
• Educational leave campaign You always know
  better afterwards
• 20 November 2015, ETUI EDU DAYS in Berlin

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• 1. Supporters of trade union education in Germany

Promoters of education that endorse trade unions

• Trade union promoters of education

• Arbeit Leben working group and 15 state working
  groups
• (DGB and adult education centres)
• European Academy of Labour at Frankfurt
  University (DGB, state of Hesse, city of
  Frankfurt) / House of Labour
• Global Labour University
• A number of adult residential schools

• DGB and member trade unions
• (All organisational levels)
• DGB Bildungswerk BUND, ver.di bb and
  Bildungswerke, BWS (IG BCE)
• DGB Bildungswerks in Bavaria, Berlin-Brandenburg,
  North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse-Thuringia
• DGB Youth
• Hans Böckler Foundation(DGB and member trade
  unions)

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• 2. Nationwide educational programme

• DGB continuing education programme

• Target group full-time employees of the DGB
• Contents trade union special interest policies,
  professional and methodical expertise, labour
  organisation, media training, leadership
• Programme responsibility DGB personnel
  department
• Planning, organisation and evaluation DGB
  Bildungswerk BUND
• Scope approx. 80 seminars

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• 2. Nationwide educational programme

• DGB youth education programme

• Target groups young trade union members and
  interested non-member, multipliers of trade union
  youth education work
• Contents political education, methods and
  concepts (vocational training days), labour and
  social law (students at work)
• Programme responsibility DGB Youth
• Planning, organisation and evaluation DGB
  Bildungswerk BUND
• Scope approx. 45 seminars

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• 2. Nationwide educational programme

• Works council qualification

• Target group works council members
• Contents Industrial constitutional law, labour
  legislation, business and corporate development,
  health and labour, social law and social policy,
  methods and social skills
• Programme responsibility, planning, organisation
  and evaluation
• DGB Bildungswerk BUND
• Scope approx. 150 seminars

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• 2. Nationwide educational programme

• General political education (educational leave)

• Target group Trade union members and interested
  non-members
• Contents Politics, economics, social issues,
  digital media, Europe and international issues
• Programme responsibility, planning, organisation
  and evaluation
• DGB Bildungswerk BUND
• Scope approx. 45 seminars, of which 1/3 on
  European and international issues

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• 3. Focus on Europe and international issues

• Educational offers of DGB and DGB Bildungswerk
  BUND

• DGB continuing education programme in 2016
• We in Europe EU seminar for trade union
  activists on theory and practice
• Preventing wage dumping and exploitation Fair
  working conditions for employees from outside the
  EU
• Social and economic integration of refugees
• Reference to the educational offers from ETUI
• DGB youth education programme in 2016
• Qualification series on "international trade
  unionism"
• Module 1 Strong on the shop floor/on the
  committee, Module 2 Active in Europe, Module 3
  United throughout the world
• Globalisation of solidarity (cooperation with the
  Global Labour University)
• German-Israeli youth exchange
• Works council qualification in 2016
• International labour and social standards at a
  glance
• OECD guidelines for multinational companies

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• 3. Focus on Europe and international issues

• Educational offers of DGB and DGB Bildungswerk
  BUND

• General political education (educational leave)
  in 2016
• Europe for beginners What does the EU decide,
  how does it work and how (un)democratic is it?
• Limitless solidarity? Barriers and paths to trade
  union cooperation in Europe
• Globalisation crash of the financial markets
  limits of growth Is global capitalism digging
  its own grave?
• Lobbying constraints on the financial markets
  reign of the experts How big is the threat to
  democracy?
• Have left-wing politics reached a dead end?
  Greece, Spain and what is the next step with the
  EU?
• In remembrance of the "primal catastrophe of the
  20th century" Museums and memorial sites
  commemorating the First World War in Flanders and
  northern France
• The Ukrainian question, the West and Russia What
  is at stake in Eastern Europe
• A mixture of education, fiction and entertainment
  what are the "truths" shown by political films?
  (Special focus 2016 "Belle Epoque" and First
  World War)
• Study tour (2016 Armenia)
•  "If a sack of rice tips over in China" impact
  of global economic interdependencies
• TTIP, CETA and similar agreements On the impact
  of worldwide trade in goods and services
•  Doing business differently but how?
  Opportunities for building a society that can
  meet the challenges of the future
•  The world on the move refugees, labour
  migration and integration policy today
•   ... still haven't seen any slaves in Qatar".
  Slavery, forced labour and exploitation in the
  21st century
•  God-fearing patriotic asocial How different
  is the USA?
•  The rise of a superpower? India, land of
  contrasts a booming economy, widow burnings and
  mass poverty

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• 4. Additional areas of focus of the DGB
  Bildungswerk BUND

• Migration and equal treatment

Development cooperation

• Current projects
• Healthy work (South Africa, Argentina, Colombia,
  Turkey)
• Asia (India, Indonesia, Vietnam)
• Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Argentina,
  Uruguay)
• Contents
• Capacity building, legal consulting, in-company
  networks, social dialogue, global supply chains

• Current projects
• Recognised Recognition of qualifications
  acquired abroad
• Fair mobility Qualification of multipliers of
  trade union educational work
• Mento Establishing a network for basic education
  and literacy in the working world 

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• 5. EDUCATIONAL LEAVE campaign YOU ALWAYS KNOW
  BETTER AFTERWARDS

• "Democracy is the only form of government that
  has to be learned. (Oskar Negt, 2004)

• Goals
• Raising awareness of options for taking a leave
  of absence
• New target groups
• Implementing ILO convention 140 in Saxony and
  Bavaria
• Improving the foundations for taking a leave of
  absence
• Expanding public financing