Employment & professions
Gewerkschaft
Trade union
Collective agreements set pay and hours for entire sectors, and often apply to you whether or not you are a member. Membership adds free legal representation in employment disputes, which is why many join before a problem rather than during one.
What it does
- Collective bargaining
No counterpart recorded for France yet
We hold this body, but nothing has been verified as its equivalent in the other country. Ask for it and an editor will look.