Media report
SEV integrates PUSH Staff Association
From July 1, 2017 the members of PUSH staff association will be integrated into the SEV transport staff union. With this step PUSH will be professionalized, and SEV-GATA will be able to continue strengthening the level of union membership of aviation employees. At the same time the approximately 500 former PUSH members will become part of the union movement belonging to the SGB Swiss Union Association.
«With this step towards integration into SEV-GATA, a section of the SEV, our members are offered professional representation of their interests and a wide range of services», says Werner Köppel, president of PUSH. Employees of Swissport, Swiss, Priora and IS are organized by PUSH.
«Air transport being strengthened in the SEV shows that with SEV-GATA the union is now firmly established in all sectors of collective transport. All transport staff is now organized in the SEV», says Philipp Hadorn, president SEV-GATA and union secretary SEV.
«The integration into our organization wanted by PUSH shows which radiation intensity the SEV has on all transport sectors, extending beyond the limits of the SGB trade unions», says Giorgio Tuti, president SEV and vice-president SGB.
The SEV commission had already given its consent to the integration of PUSH a few months ago. In a ballot 99 % of the PUSH members voted in favor of the plan. The motion was carried unanimously by the members of SEV-GATA during their general meeting. «In future close cooperation with other unions and staff associations will be most important to ensure that we can continue improving the working conditions of our members in a constructive contracting partnership with the companies», emphasizes Philipp Hadorn.
GATA:SEV Aviation (Groundstaff Aviation Technics and Administration) the aviation department of the SEV, the transport staff union, since 2001.