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Organizing-Handbuch – Der digitale Werkzeugkasten (ver.di)

Summary

The Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) is the German service-sector trade union, headquartered in Berlin; the “Organizing-Handbuch – Der digitale Werkzeugkasten” is the specific practitioner publication registered under this slug that documents ver.di’s digital-tools organising practice. [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]

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The ver.di homepage (the URL captured in the homepage scrape) describes ver.di as the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (United Services Trade Union) [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]. Ver.di’s current “Rette mit uns den Sozialstaat” framing positions the union against what it calls a debate narrowed to “Sparen und Kürzen” (“saving and cuts”) and frames its response as a fact-based, education-and-political-context counter-mobilisation against the “Ausverkauf des Sozialstaats” (sell-off of the welfare state) [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch].

Current active campaigns on the ver.di homepage include: opposition to the GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz (statutory health insurance contribution-stabilisation law) — over 15,000 people have already protested against the planned cuts in healthcare, with the law debated in first reading by the Bundestag on 12 June, and ver.di demanding the draft be fundamentally revised [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]; defence of the Arbeitszeitgesetz (Working Time Act) — ver.di says “Hände weg vom 8-Stunden-Tag – das deutsche Arbeitszeitgesetz schützt vor zu langen Arbeitszeiten, regelt Pausen und Ruhezeiten, Nacht- und Sonntagsarbeit und Ausnahmen” against a government plan to extend the maximum daily working time [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]; and a “Gemeinsam gegen Rechtsextremismus” track (joint-against-far-right-extermism) [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch].

Ver.di’s membership benefits listed on the homepage include: free legal protection in labour and social-law questions (Rechtsschutz), a free nationwide income-tax service (Lohnsteuerservice) for members, and a free rental-law hotline (Mietrechtshotline) [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]. The stated organising principle is “die Solidarität von rund zwei Millionen Kolleg*innen” — the solidarity of around two million colleagues [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch].

The specific Organizing-Handbuch – Der digitale Werkzeugkasten publication is published under ver.di’s resources / training tracks; its downloadable PDF was not captured in the homepage scrape.

Use it for

Citing ver.di’s current campaign framing (defence of the welfare state, defence of the 8-hour day, opposition to GKV cuts); using ver.di’s membership-benefit list as the standard German union member-benefit set; requesting the Organizing-Handbuch – Der digitale Werkzeugkasten publication via ver.di shop-steward training tracks.

Sources & verification

Open Questions

  • Capture the specific Organizing-Handbuch – Der digitale Werkzeugkasten PDF (typically published under verdi.de/themen/mitbestimmung/organizing or verdi.de/bildung) to ground the digital-tools organising methodology.