The ''Verkehrsgewerkschaft GDBA'' ("transport union GDBA") was a German trade union.
It was founded on May 23, 1948 in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
as "Gewerkschaft Deutscher Bundesbahnbeamten und Anwärter" and was a member of the
German Civil Service Federation
The German Civil Service Association () is a national trade union centre in Germany
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.
Since autumn 2005 GDBA worked together with the "rival" union
Transnet.
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 Transnet to the new union
EVG.
External links
* http://www.gdba-archiv.de
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Railway unions in Germany
Trade unions established in 1948
Defunct trade unions of Germany
Trade unions disestablished in 2010