(en) Germany, FAU-IAA - B?ll Foundation action after further conversation blockade (de)

On 18 January, the demonstration against the agricultural industry was held in Berlin. 
Following the HBS had invited to the common soup meal with opportunity for discussion. 
Some activists of the FAU Berlin took advantage of this opportunity to make the people on 
the poor working conditions at the Heinrich-B?ll-Stiftung (HBS) and to inform about the 
anti-union behavior of the HBS management. From the information material was nothing left. 
The startled reactions ("Something is happening here?") Once again highlighted that the 
Foundation has a reputation, which it is not fair - a circumstance over which the FAU 
Berlin was able to shed again on that day. For still the HBS, with the FAU Berlin refuses 
to enter into negotiations, although this union as represented in operation actively 
engaged in the conflict, and insists on her right to represent their members.

Just a few days before the union had made this claim. She called on the HBS, the working 
hours for one of its members, which currently absurd is busy conditions in a remote 
location, equally. The Foundation is contrary to the current working hours of the FAU 
Member against house flexitime.

However, from the personnel department was allowed only stated that continue all 
communication will run about lawyers and the FAU so that their representation shall be 
denied - even if, as is in this case is simplest labor matters in which the Foundation 
against their own rules are. This is grotesque when you consider that the Foundation in 
its annual report of 2012 boasts a "great place to work," the "self-determined forms of 
work" and enables its management to maintain a "participative" management style as a 
principle. As in recent months could be observed: a lip service, which does not last 
hardly has real value for the technical staff.

According to well-informed sources, the management of the HBS FAU currently trying to keep 
with further steps of the operation. The executive suite was to create well on lawyers 
report, which is to enable the council to keep the militant union from meetings. If this 
is true, this would be a further escalation, which brings the anti-union attitude of the 
management to express. An invitation to the operation of the works council meeting on 21 
January stood out to the last.