»RESISTANCE WITHOUT BORDERS« - RANK AND FILE CAUCUS AT OPEL BOCHUM

IN 1972 the shopfloor caucus »»Gewerkschaftlichen Oppositions-Gruppe« (Trade Union Opposition Group«) was founded, initiated by activists from the students movement of the 70s. Later the name was changed to »Resistance withougt Borders«, which made it possible for the group to keep their german acronym »GoG«. This group played an important role inbetween the culture of »independent« and »progressive« factory groups and real trade union politics - being engaged with the IG Metall as the trade union in this sector and alo part of the German shop-stewards- and works-council-system. In addition this group reflects much of the experiences and changes within industrial labor politics happening between the 1970s and today.

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GoG : 5 : working hours issue in 80ies (Wolfgang Schaumberg)

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the discussion for a better life in the trade union movement became relevant and escalated with the IG-Metall strike for a 35-hours working week. Wolfgang Schaumberg recalls this discussion and the social and political debates from the perspective of Opel-Bochum and the GoG-group. linked to the this debate is the phenomenon of mass unemployment as strategical factor for all union issues but also the hollow and two-sided nature of purely formal reductions of the working week.
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