ISC - Pilot 2 - Circle Germany 1

	Germany 1 (Juergen Sendler)
	Report: Preparatory meeting

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Dear friends,

I really regret the delay of our first report's submission.

Let me at first tell you who takes part in our study circle:

Jutta Esser

Her home town is Duisburg. She just started her teacher-training at a vocational school in February 1998. She worked at a Thyssen firm before and therfor is member of the IG Metall.

Christiane Ludwig

She is nurse, specialist for intensive care;teacher nurse; for 6 years leader of a school for nurses, living in Dortmund. Now she?s studying Nursing and Health Care in Bochum ÖTV Trade Union Activist; Chair of local women's commitee

Jens Martens

living and working in Duesseldorf, at the DGB Bildungswerk, dealing with project management and distance learning experiences.

Juergen Sendler

He lives in Neckargemuend near Heidelberg; the office, he works in is in Duesseldorf., union education department of DGB. Due to his former work as a printer he is member of the media union (IG Medien).

We have been fascinated seeing really big and interesting study circles meet under difficult circumstances - welcome to all of you and please don't be too cross about our delay

Everybody in the study circle has access to e-mail and internet, so it wasn't necessary to get the materials printed. We started the discussion with the text

what is globalisation ?? translated into German language.

We talked about economic changes, which could be experienced in workplaces of health services, hospitals (as an important part of public services in Germany).

The main topics were.

first:: there have been different cuttings in social security systems , which are organized as compulsary insurancies in Germany (employers and employees sharing in the contribution). Within the health insurance for instance, working people have to pay the same premium as before, but at the same time the private contribution to medicines or preventive medicine encrease- in order to scale down work costs.

outsourcing for the same reason more and more cleaning and kitchen jobs or jobs of craftspersons are no longer kept inside the hospitals.

impact some employees with special trainings like physiotherapists loose their jobs because the health insurance does no longer (or only seldom) pay for this kind of therapy. In consequence the feeling of insecurity is growing. accident an health prevention gets more difficult - sometimes safety advisors in (public or private) workingplaces don?t insist in preventive regulations, don't want to make work more expensive?

there is an increasing number of employments at a limited time, what makes organizing in unions more difficult

See and read you soon,

greetings for this time

Juergen Sendler

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