Employees in the Building and Construction Trades

Topics: job satisfaction; judgement on personal economic situation; duration and reasons for personal unemployment; duration of company employment; absence from home due to occupation; distance to job; attitude to the union and to its wage demands; attitude to the influence of unions in wage negotiations; assumed attitude of company management and social environment to trade unions; membership in the works council and in the union; reasons for the decision to join the union; degree of information about the union and its successes; utilization of union services; participation in union meetings and union further education events; contacts with union functionaries; evaluation of the amount of membership fee; change of job; overtime; membership in clubs; personal party preference and that of father; father´s party membership; religiousness.

The following questions were also posed to non-members: interest in joining and knowledge of amount of membership fee. With former members: reasons for leaving. Demography: age; number of children; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; income; household income; size of household; composition of household; state.