Vortrag & Diskussion: Gewerkschaftliche Strategien gegen faschistische Betriebspolitik

A lot has been done in IG Metall in recent years to counter the right-wing wave: After many years of pressure from members with a history of migration, anti-racist initiatives, campaigns and special educational offers have been launched and sometimes mobilized directly against the far right. However, conflict-oriented attempts to democratize workplaces are still not at the top of the trade union agenda, while political developments do not stop at the factory gates.

The trade unions are therefore desperately looking for answers to push back the shift to the right. It is precisely in the employees' experiences of conflict that moments of self-empowerment can be found, to which a positive narrative for the future can dock. Not only by asserting collective bargaining demands, but also by participating in workplace actions, including strikes. Against the backdrop of the political mood, the development of an active and resistant company culture and company-related educational work also becomes a means of countering the right-wing ideology of the company community with solidarity and trade union representation of interests. This reveals a strategy that proactively combines a participation-oriented collective bargaining and workplace policy with a consistent stance against fascists.