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In view of the corona pandemic and the fundamental change in the world of work, Hamburg's DGB unions have placed securing employment at the top of the agenda.
"We have to do everything to ensure that people stay in work, keep their jobs and do not slip into unemployment," said Hamburg DGB chairman Katja Karger on Thursday on the occasion of the report by the eight DGB individual trade unions on the situation in the individual sectors.
Particular attention is paid to insecure and precarious employment.
Because mini-jobbers, part-time employees or contract workers were the first to be dismissed in the Corona crisis or - if they still had work - often had to cope with the most difficult working conditions.
Qualifications and health protection are also at the top of the agenda.
"We need health protection for everyone - regardless of where they work," said Karger.
The focal point is the risk assessment in the individual companies.
"We have to keep an eye on the psychological stress because we are currently seeing and experiencing in companies that mental health is very much in demand," said Karger.
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In addition to fighting the pandemic, the topics of climate change, digitization and securing democracy are also on the agenda of the unions.
"Because of course there is absolutely no reason why democracy should end at the factory gate," said Karger, referring to co-determination in the companies.
Karger called on the employees to show solidarity in view of the Corona crisis.
Because of the pandemic, people had to keep their distance in the production halls, "and others will only see each other digitally and via video in the home office," said Karger - and emphasized: "We have to be careful that these forms of work (...) do not lead to a loss of solidarity . “Right now everyone should stick together even more.
"Because only together can we actually achieve the protection of employees on the one hand and also improve working conditions on the other," said Karger.
"We reject an obligation to work from home"
Hamburg's Verdi boss Berthold Bose called on employers to involve works councils and unions in the design of digital work and alternative workplaces.
This is especially true if this form of work is to be retained in the future.
"We reject an obligation to work from home," said Bose.
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DGB boss Karger said: "At the moment we have an unregulated area where everyone involved can actually do what they want." Home office planned.
The representatives of the individual trade unions painted a very different picture of the situation in their branches.
The managing director of the food-pleasure-restaurants union (Hamburg-Elmshorn region), Silke Kettner, spoke of a “desperate situation” for the employees with a view to the catering trade, which was closed due to the lockdown.
On the other hand, representatives of IG BCE, IG BAU and the railway workers' union EVG reported hardly any or no problems caused by corona, at least in terms of employment.
At IG Metall, on the other hand, the picture is different.
There are major problems in aircraft construction, for example, while good business is made in medical technology, for example.