Summary

A German union workplace-organizing manual from ver.di, focused on digital tools for member recruitment, mapping, and mobilization in the service-sector workplace. The standard German-language union-organizing handbook.

Body

The Werkzeugkasten is ver.di’s practical guide to digital organizing: setting up member-mapping spreadsheets, running secure phone-banking scripts, building WhatsApp-based workplace committees, and using the ver.di member app. It also covers the legal framework for union activity in German workplaces (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, works-council rights) and the boundaries of what organizers can and cannot do on employer devices. The handbook is written for ver.di shop stewards but the methods transfer to any German trade union. [source: verdi-organizing-handbuch]

Use it for

Training German union organizers; setting up a digital workplace-committee tool; understanding the German works-council framework for organizing.

Related

• affinity-groups
• civic-tech
• coalition-building
• constructive-programme
• digital-security
• distributed-organizing
• framing-and-narrative
• leadership-development
• one-to-ones
• petitions-and-e-campaigning
• public-narrative

Open Questions

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Sources & verification

• verdi-organizing-handbuch — grounding: secondary — RAW (license unverified, default link-only)

Verified 2026-07-01 by llm-qc.