Imprint receives observer status with the SGB
The journalists' union Impressum now has observer status with the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). Last week, the SGB Executive Board approved a corresponding application from Impressum.
The journalists' union Impressum now has observer status with the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). Last week, the SGB Executive Committee approved a corresponding application from Impressum. The status is limited to two years. As an observer, associations can have a say in the trade union federation, but they have no voting rights.
The SGB is pleased about this rapprochement, it said in a press release on Tuesday. It closes the gap in the social partnership landscape in Switzerland that was left by the termination of the collective employment agreement for the press by the German-speaking Swiss publishers in 2004.
So far, only the trade union SIT (Syndicat interprofessionel des travailleurs/-euses) and the Swiss Vocational Education and Training Association BCH (Verband der Berufsschullehrer und -lehrerinnen) have observer status with the SGB.
The SGB is pleased about this rapprochement, it said in a press release on Tuesday. It closes the gap in the social partnership landscape in Switzerland that was left by the termination of the collective employment agreement for the press by the German-speaking Swiss publishers in 2004.
So far, only the trade union SIT (Syndicat interprofessionel des travailleurs/-euses) and the Swiss Vocational Education and Training Association BCH (Verband der Berufsschullehrer und -lehrerinnen) have observer status with the SGB.
