IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt
IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt | |
| Founded | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Frankfurt, Germany |
| Location | |
| Members | 350,000 |
Key people | Robert Feiger, president |
| Affiliations | DGB |
| Website | www.igbau.de |
The IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) is a trade union in Germany with a membership of 350,000 (as per end of 2007). It is the fourth largest of eight industrial affiliates of the DGB (German Confederation of Trade Unions). IG BAU is active in the sectors of construction and engineering, building materials, building cleaning, facility management, gardening, forestry and agriculture. Since 2013 Robert Feiger has been the president of IG BAU.
IG BAU was formed in 1996 as a merger of the Building and Construction Union (IG BSE) and the Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union (GGLF).
On the international level IG BAU is affiliated to the global union federations BWI, IUF and UNI.
The national headquarters of IG BAU is in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. IG BAU has also two political lobbying offices in the federal capital city of Berlin and the European capital city of Brussels/Belgium, 13 regional offices in most German federal state capitals and more than 120 local offices in all major cities of Germany.