IG Metall - A Trade Union in Crisis?

            
 
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Case Code : HROB084
Case Length : 16 Pages
Period : 1994-2006
Pub Date : 2006
Teaching Note : Available
Organization : IG Metall Trade Union
Industry : Diversified
Countries : Germany, Europe

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Crisis at IG Metall

With rapid globalization and a changing business environment, IG Metall, with its traditional and inflexible views on labor relations, began to face a crisis. Many analysts believed that IG Metall had become marginalized and irrelevant to the German economic environment. They cited the decline in the union's membership levels and the emergence of 'ver.di' as the largest trade union for a brief period in Germany, as proof of this view.

The membership rolls of IG Metall had not increased very significantly since the 1980s. During the 1990s, around one million members left IG Metall; this was almost one-third of its total strength.

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This happened despite the addition of one million members from East Germany after German reunification in 1989, and the merger of the trade unions from other industry sectors.

In 2002, IG Metall represented less than 30 percent of active employees in the industrial sector in Germany. One third of its members were retired, less than seven percent of the members were below 25 years old, and women members were leaving the organization in large numbers...

The Future

According to many analysts, events like the re-unification of Germany, end of the cold war division of Europe, growth of a single European market and the acceleration of globalization have all affected the German economy. However, the institutional framework has not moved to adapt to these changes.

Some policy makers and analysts felt that the changing conditions represented a severe challenge to IG Metall, due to its old fashioned views on labor relations...

Exhibits

Exhibit I: Logo of IG Metall
Exhibit II: Organizational Structure
Exhibit III: Democratic Structure
Exhibit IV: Description of IG Metall's Organization Structure
Exhibit V: Composition of the IG Metall Members (in September, 2004)
Exhibit VI: Changing Union Participation Rates in Various Countries in 2000
Exhibit VII: Pictures of Cover Page and Illustrations in 'Metall'

 

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