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Title: 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)

3
  • 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
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