AVISO: 4th trade union day of PRO-GE from June 14th to 16th in the Austria Center Vienna

2023-06-07 11:28:07

Vienna (OTS) – From June 14th to 16th, 2023, the production union (PRO-GE) will hold its fourth union day in the Austria Center Vienna. Under the motto “Our work, our life, our future”, the delegates will define the work program for the next five years.

There is also a generational change at the top of the union. After 14 years as national chairman of PRO-GE, Rainer Wimmer will no longer stand as a candidate. Federal Secretary Reinhold Binder has been nominated as his successor. The 44-year-old comes from Micheldorf (Upper Austria). Binder began his trade union commitment as a youth councilor at Greiner Extrusion, where he completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker. In 2000/2001 he graduated from the Social Academy of the Chamber of Labor and between 2006 and 2016 Binder worked as a union secretary in the Steyr-Kirchdorf regional office. He has been responsible for organization and campaigns at PRO-GE since 2016 and has been Federal Secretary since 2018.

PLEASE NOTE:

The trade union day is accessible to media representatives at all times. Accreditation takes place directly at the Austria Center Vienna (reception, entrance 2 or press office, room 2.32), Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220 Vienna.

Parts of the congress will also be broadcast live. The live stream will be available from June 14th at www.proge.at be accessible.

Program preview (live stream):

June 14, 2023, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Opening with welcome words from Dr. Michael Ludwig, (Mayor of Vienna), Renate Anderl (AK President), Enrico Somaglia (Deputy Secretary General EFFAT), Atle Høie (Secretary General IndustriAll Global) and Wolfgang Katzian (ÖGB President)

June 15, 2023, from 10:25 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.: Main speech at the trade union day by Reinhold Binder (candidate for the federal presidency)

June 15, 2023, 1:30 p.m.: Speech by Barbara Blaha (Momentum Institute) on topics such as inflation, the pension system, and the unequal distribution of wealth and power in society

Afterwards, around 2:30 p.m.: report from the election commission and announcement of the election results

June 16, 2023, from 9:10 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.: Lecture by Klaus Dörre (Institute for Sociology, University of Jena) with the content, among other things: Devaluation of the workforce in political and media discourse, challenges of the transformation to a climate-neutral mode of production , opportunities for social movements

About the union PRO-GE

The production union was founded in 2009 as a merger of the metal-textile-food and chemical workers unions. The PRO-GE trade union represents around 230,000 members and negotiates more than 100 collective agreements for workers and apprentices in industry and trade every year. More than 7,600 works councils and 800 youth councils are supported in their work by PRO-GE.