| has gloss | eng: Compared with other Western European countries, Trade unions play a rather minor role in Switzerland with only every fourth employee organized in a union or confederation. The most important organization is the Swiss Trade Union Confederation (SGB or USS) with approximately 385,000 members and 16 individual trade unions. Unia is the largest of these with 200,000 members. It merged with the Trade union for Construction and Industry (GBI), the Trade Union for Industry, Trade and Services (SMUV), the VHTL, and actions in 2004. The second largest confederation is Travail.Suisse, which was founded in 2002 in Berne and has approximately 170,000 members. |
| lexicalization | eng: Trade unions in Switzerland |
| subclass of | (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
brotherhood, trades union, trade union, labor union, union |
| has instance | e/de/Aeropers |
| has instance | e/de/Arbeitsfrieden (Schweiz) |
| has instance | e/de/Comedia (Gewerkschaft) |
| has instance | e/de/Garanto |
| has instance | e/de/Gewerkschaft Bau und Industrie |
| has instance | e/de/Gewerkschaft Industrie, Gewerbe, Dienstleistungen |
| has instance | e/de/Gewerkschaft Kommunikation |
| has instance | e/de/Gewerkschaft Verkauf Handel Transport Lebensmittel |
| has instance | e/de/Oltener Aktionskomitee |
| has instance | e/de/Personalverband des Bundes |
| has instance | e/de/Schweizer Syndikat Medienschaffender |
| has instance | e/de/Schweizerischer Eisenbahn- und Verkehrspersonal-Verband |
| has instance | e/de/Schweizerischer Verband des Personals öffentlicher Dienste |
| has instance | e/de/Syna |
| has instance | e/de/Verband Schweizer Lokomotivführer und Anwärter |
| has instance | e/Unia (union) |
| has instance | e/fr/Chambre Genevoise du Carrelage et de la Céramique |
| has instance | e/fr/Fédération des Sociétés de fonctionnaires et des associations du parapublic vaudois |
| has instance | e/fr/Syndicat des employés genevois |
| has instance | e/it/Sindacato dei Consumatori |
| has instance | e/it/UNIA |