The Hotels, Catering and Personal Services Union (, HGPD) was a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing workers in the hospitality industry in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. The union was founded in 1978, when the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union merged with the Personal Service Workers' Union. Like its forerunners, the union affiliated to the Austrian Trade Union Federation. By 1998, the union had 50,320 members. In 2006, it merged with the Railway Workers' Union and the Commerce and Transport Union, to form Vida.{{cite web , title=Eine Bewegung in Bewegung , url=https://www.oegb.at/cms/S06/S06_999_Suche.a/1342537066882/suche/eine-bewegung-in-bewegung , website=Austrian Trade Union Federation , accessdate=16 January 2020

Presidents

:1978: Florian Mück :1987: Franz Erwin Niemitz

References

Hospitality industry trade unions Trade unions established in 1978 Trade unions disestablished in 2006 Trade unions in Austria 1978 establishments in Austria 2006 disestablishments in Austria