TIE Germany

The Car network exists since the beginning of the 80s and organises workers from the car industry in Germany. The workers, both from car producers and suppliers, meet twice a year to exchange information on strategies of companies and their labour conditions, how to respond to changes and support each other’s actions and negotiations.

DaimlerChrysler Coordination

The ‘DaimlerChrysler Coordination’ is an open network of union activists, which supports a regular exchange of information in the DaimlerChrysler plants in Germany. We conceive ourselves as rank-and-file-oriented. Our aim is to look beyond our own work situation by adopting an internationalist perspective. We want to ban narrow thinking in terms of competitiveness, and we want to strengthen solidarity in Germany and beyond

Rail network

Since early 2001 railway-workers from several countries come together on a regular basis to discuss the impact of the ongoing privatisation of the railway sector in the European Union, and plan actions against it.

Rail & privatisation in West-Africa

In Senegal and Mali, long planned railway privatisation was executed in October 2003, when the central 1.200 km railway line between the two countries’ capitals, from Dakar to Bamako, was sold to the Canadian/French enterprise Transrail. Since then workers living from and along the railway have organised themselves in several organisations. TIE supports these workers and has helped with setting up a regional network of rail workers and activists from railway unions in the different parts of West Africa. Outside of Africa the network cooperates with rail unions in Europe; in French, Spain, Great Britain and Germany.

Chemical network

In the seventies a network between workers from the chemical industry emerged in Germany. The Chemical network is independent of tie, but as we have always supported their work and efforts we like to mention them here as well.

Company & industry networks

As trends in the global economy become more and more important for the decision-making process on national level contacts between workers in the same sector or company increasingly gain importance. National answers to lay-offs, out-sourcing and reorganisations are hard to formulate when transnational companies move their production around the globe with the sole purpose of maximising their profits. Building and supporting international networks of workers active in the same industry or company is one answer to mobilise strength, information and experiences to can counter these companies.