TRANSNET, which stands for Transport, Service, and Networks, 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 ...

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and one of eight industrial affiliations of the

German Confederation of Trade Unions The German Trade Union Confederation (; DGB) is an umbrella organisation (sometimes known as a national trade union center) for eight German trade unions, in total representing more than 6 million people (31 December 2011). It was founded ...

. Since autumn 2005, TRANSNET worked together with the "rival" union GDBA. On November 30, 2010, the delegates of a union convention in

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. Histor ...

decided to merge with GDBA to the new union EVG.

Presidents

:1949: Hans Jahn :1959: Philipp Seibert :1979: Ernst Haar :1988: Rudi Schäfer :1999: Norbert Hansen :2008: Lothar Krauß :2008: Alexander Kirchner

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German Trade Union Confederation Trade unions established in 1948 1948 establishments in Germany Trade unions disestablished in 2010 {{Germany-org-stub