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IGM

German Metalworkers' Union
Industriegewerkschaft Metall
Members	2.4 million
Country	Germany
Affiliation	DGB
Key people	Jürgen Peters, president
Office location	Frankfurt, Germany
Website	www.igmetall.de

IG Metall (German: Industriegewerkschaft Metall, "German Metalworkers' Union") is the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany. Analysts of German labor relations consider it a major trend-setter in national bargaining. As a metalworkers' union, it represents workers in the motor vehicle industry. Significantly, IG Metall represents both blue- and white-collar workers.

On April 1, 1998 the Gewerkschaft Textil und Bekleidung (GTB), the trade union of textile and clothing joined IGM.
On January 1, 2000 the Gewerkschaft Holz und Kunststoff (GHK), the trade union of wood and plastics joined IGM.

IGM is a member of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB), the German trade union confederation.
IGM is also a member of some international union umbrella organisations.

Contents 1 Organisation structure 2 Miscellaneous 2.1 metall 2.2 chairmen 3 External links 3.1 Further reading

IGM consists of 7 Bezirke which are subdivided in Verwaltungstellen:
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Bezirk Baden-Württemberg
  headquarters located in Stuttgart
  28 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Bayern 
( Bavaria )
  headquarters located in Munich
  21 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Berlin-Brandenburg-Sachsen 
( Berlin + Brandenburg + Saxony )
  headquarters located in Berlin
  12 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Frankfurt
( Saarland + Rhineland-Palatinate + Hesse + Thuringia )
  headquarters located in Frankfurt/Main
  27 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Küste ( "Küste"= "Sea Coast" )
( Bremen + Hamburg + Schleswig-Holstein + Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania )
  headquarters located in Hamburg
  19 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Niedersachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt
( Lower Saxony + Saxony-Anhalt )
  headquarters located in Hanover
  20 Verwaltungstellen
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Bezirk Nordrhein-Westfalen
( North Rhine-Westphalia )
  headquarters located in Düsseldorf
  47 Verwaltungstellen

The IGM magazine metall exists since 1949.
Actually (2005) it has a circulation of over 2 million per issue, there are 10 issues per year.

1949-1950: Hans Brümmer, Walter Freitag, Wilhelm Petersen
1950-1952: Hans Brümmer      // 2nd chairman: Walter Freitag 
1952-1956: Hans Brümmer      // 2nd chairman: Otto Brenner 
1956-1968: Otto Brenner
1968-1972: Otto Brenner      // 2nd chairman: Eugen Loderer 
1972-1983: Eugen Loderer     // 2nd chairman: Hans Mayr 
1983-1986: Hans Mayr         // 2nd chairman: Franz Steinkühler 
1986-1989: Franz Steinkühler // 2nd chairman: Karl-Heinz Jansen
1989-1993: Franz Steinkühler // 2nd chairman: Klaus Zwickel 
1993-1998: Klaus Zwickel     // 2nd chairman: Walter Riester
1998-2003: Klaus Zwickel     // 2nd chairman: Jürgen Peters
2003-    : Jürgen Peters     // 2nd chairman: Berthold Huber

• German homepage
• English section of German Homepage
• http://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/englisch.neu/
• http://samvak.tripod.com/pp141.html - "Recent history and future of IG Metall"
• http://www.igmetall.de/metall/ - online version of the magazine, in German

• Thelen, Kathleen. 1993. West European Labor in Transition: Sweden and Germany Compared. World Politics 46, no. 1 (October): 23-49.