What is the 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.

Since beginning of the eighties, progressive shop stewards of the IG Metall, representatives of plant groups and works councils as well as other interested colleagues of DaimlerChrysler Germany form the Mercedes and later the DaimlerChrysler Coordination. We hold regular meetings where colleagues from different plants in Germany exchange information, critically examine management strategies and develop own positions. A regular contact between the workers of the different German plants is indispensable, as we want to provide information exchange and create the development of common strategies to fight back. Most participants of the DaimlerChrysler Coordination are engaged in different union committees and regularly issue newsletters or leaflets in the plant.

You can get in touch with the Mercedes Coordination via dcexchange@gmx.de