Requirements for a membership
- I am a worker. This means all employed, unemployed, directly or indirectly wage-dependent, (pseudo) self-employed, trainees and pensioners.
- I am not a boss. That means I don’t have the power to hire or fire employees.
- I agree to the statutes of the Allgemeines Syndikat Göttingen and the principles and foundations of the FAU.
Industries (explanation)
- Health and Social care:
- Hospitals
- Doctor and dental practices
- Nursing homes
- Inpatient facilities for psychosocial care
- Old people’s homes
- Residences for people with disabilities
- Other homes (without recreation and holiday homes)
- Social care for the elderly and people with disabilities
- Day care for children
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing:
- Forestry and logging
- Agriculture
- Mining and quarrying:
- Coal mining
- Extraction of oil and natural gas
- Ore mining
- Extraction of stones and earth
- Other mining
- Provision of services for mining and the extraction of stones and earth
- Manufacturing:
- Production of food and feed
- Beverage production
- Production of textiles
- Production of wood, braided, basket and cork products
- Production of paper, paperboard and articles thereof
- Production of printed products
- Duplication of recorded sound, image and data carriers
- Manufacture of chemical products
- Production of pharmaceutical products
- Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
- Manufacture of glass and glassware, ceramics, processing of stones and earth
- Metal production and processing
- Manufacture of metal products
- Manufacture of data processing equipment, electronic and optical products
- Mechanical engineering
- Manufacture of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts
- Other vehicle construction
- Manufacture of furniture
- Manufacture of other goods
- Energy supply:
- Electricity supply/electricity generation/electricity transmission/electricity distribution/electricity trading
- Gas supply/gas generation/gas distribution by pipelines/gas trading through pipelines
- Heat and cold supply
- Water supply; sewage and waste disposal and remediation of environmental pollution:
- Water supply
- Wastewater disposal
- Collection, treatment and disposal of waste
- Recovery
- elimination of pollution and other disposal
- Construction:
- Civil engineering
- Building construction
- Preparatory construction site work, construction installation and other finishing industry
- Retail trade:
- Retail (retail trade in goods of various types)
- Wholesale
- Trade in motor vehicles
- Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
- Transport and storage:
- Post-, Kurier- und Expressdienste, Zustelldienste (Rider)
- Storage and provision of other services for the transport
- Hospitality:
- Restaurants, Snack bars, Cafes, Ice cream parlors
- Catering
- Pubs, bars, clubs
- Hotels, inns and guesthouses
- Holiday accommodation
- Campsites
- Information and communication:
- Information Technology Services (IT)
- Information and Communication
- Publishing
- Manufacture, distribution and distribution of films and television programmes
- Cinemas
- Recording studios and publishing music
- Broadcaster
- Telecommunications
- Information services
- Other information services (journalism)
- Financial and insurance services:
- Central banks and credit institutions
- Insurances
- Pension funds and pension funds
- Real estate and housing:
- Mediation and management of land, buildings and apartments for third parties
- Professional, scientific and technical services:
- Architectural and engineering firms
- technical, physical and chemical examination
- Research and development
- Advertising and Market Research
- Other freelance, scientific and technical activities
- Management consulting
- Lawyers
- Other business services:
- Gardening and landscaping
- Caretaker services
- Cleaning of buildings, roads and transport
- Provision of economic services for companies and private individuals (secretariat, copy shops, call centres, trade fair, exhibition and congress organisers)
- Rental of consumer goods
- Travel agencies, tour operators and other reservation services
- Guard and security services
- Public administration, defense; social security:
- Public administration in the fields of health, education, culture and social services, economic development, order and supervision (agriculture, land use, energy and natural resources, infrastructure, transport, communication, accommodation and tourism, trade)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence: Administration of Justice (on behalf of state agencies)
- Social Security
- Education:
- Kindergartens and preschools
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Generally education secondary schools
- Vocational secondary schools
- Other lessons: sports and leisure lessons, cultural lessons, driving and flight schools
- Art, entertainment and recreation:
- Creative, artistic and entertaining activities
- Libraries, archives, museums, botanical and zoological gardens
- Game, betting and lottery
- Providing services of sport, entertainment and recreation
- Other services:
- Provision of other personal services (laundry and dry cleaning
- Hairdressing and cosmetic salons
- Saunas, solariums, baths
- Sexwork
- Tattoo studios
- Funeral
- Services for Political Parties and Associations
- Activities of organizations that are not directly affiliated to a political party and support matters and issues of public interest (NGOS, associations, etc.)
- Repair of consumer goods
- Exterritorial organizations and bodies:
- Activities of international organisations such as the United Nations and its special or regional organisations, etc.
- Activities of diplomatic and consular missions of other nation states
