💥Announcement! Wednesday 18.03.2026💥

🔥✊🏾Solidarity Meeting: Social Work Works Council Elections 2026✊🏾🔥

Wednesday, 18.03.2026 | 7.00 pm | Kiezhaus Agnes Reinhold, Afrikanische Straße 74, 13351 Berlin

Arrival: U6 Rehberge | Tram 50, M13 Seestraße/Amrumer Straße | Bus 221 Transvaalstraße

📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16120 - @solitreff

#b1803 #workscouncil #socialwork

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the 68th Solidarity Meeting in Wedding.

Topic: Works Council Elections 2026

At our March Solidarity Meeting, we want to focus on the works council elections, which will now take place from 1 March to 31 May 2026.

In Germany, works councils are the body responsible for co-determination within the workplace. In social work organisations, there are often no works councils, or very few that are militant.

Let’s exchange views on the works council elections across organisational boundaries, fill in the gaps in our knowledge together, support one another and discuss how we can establish more militant works councils in social work.

What’s your works council like so far? Are you standing for election this year? How are preparations going in your workplace? Are there divisions or conflicts?

🔐 From private complaints to election results – works councils handle some of the most sensitive data in any organization. But how secure is that information, really?

💬 Discover why encryption isn’t optional anymore – and how works councils can take back control of their digital confidentiality.

👉 Read the full blog post: https://cryptomator.org/blog/2025/11/24/encryption-for-works-councils/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=works-councils

#DataProtection #WorksCouncil #EndToEndEncryption #DigitalSovereignty #CryptomatorHub #Cryptomator

Pay gap analysis is hard, hard work. Sifting through thousands of lines of data, trying to identify reliable ways to make an argument and identify correct comparisons. Salary bands, levels, job descriptions — they all need to be accounted for. In case you thought being an elected member of the Works Council in a global company is easy (at least when you decide to take your responsibility serious).

#LifeAtRedHat #WorksCouncil #Betriebsrat

Unhinged things I online searched in quick succession:
- "Equality of treatment in company structure",
- "Can you still talk about human races",
- "Why is offspring of different animal species unable to procreate",
- "Pre- vs Postzygotic".

Damnit, I am just trying to understand works council obligations! 🧠

#WorksCouncil #Unionize #Evolution

Our company has a works council since yesterday. 🎉

I am extremely glad that this came to fruition finally. Also a bit proud, because I was in the election committee that worked hard towards making this possible! 💪

#Unionize #WorksCouncil

Dieses Zimmer hat das Hotel in Paris für mich reserviert.

Wird anstrengend beim Treffen des #european #WorksCouncil 😉

Aber erst mal mit der #deutschebahn dort ankommen…
#europaischer #betriebsrat

Our educational program for works councils offers a wide range of seminars, including several in English. We provide a brief insight and answer questions about booking.
#workscouncil #unionstrong

https://www.igmetall-berlin.de/english-info/news/article/already-booked-your-workshops-for-2025