Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft

Infobox Union
name= ver.di
country= Germany
affiliation= DGB
members= 2,400,000
full_name= United Services Union
native_name= Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft e. V.


founded= 2001
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Berlin, Germany
people= Frank Bsirske, president
website= [http://www.verdi.de/ www.verdi.de/]
footnotes= ver.di is a large German trade union. It claims to be the largest trade union in the world, with 2.4 million members (although it should be noted that the National Education Association, a teaching union in the United States, claims to have a larger membership of 3.2 million). "ver.di" is an abbreviation for Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, which means "United Services Union." The headquarter of the trade union is in Berlin.

In 2001 ver.di was formed when the German Salaried Employees' Union (DAG) merged with four unions of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) (DPG, HBV, ÖTV, IG Medien).

References

*cite book
year = 2005
title = Trade Unions of the World
editor = ICTUR et al,
edition = 6th
publisher = John Harper Publishing
location = London, UK
id = ISBN 0-9543811-5-7

External links

* [http://www.verdi.de/ Official ver.di homepage]
* [http://international.verdi.de/ver.di_fremdsprachig/was_ist_ver.di_-_eine_einfuehrung_auf_englisch Introduction in English] on the ver.di homepage