Tags: Trade Union.
The Free Association of German Trade Unions (German: About this sound Freie Vereinigung deutscher Gewerkschaften ; abbreviated FVdG; sometimes also translated as Free Association of German Unions or Free Alliance of German Trade Unions) was a trade union federation in Imperial and early Weimar Germany. It was founded in 1897 in Halle under the name Representatives’ Centralization of Germany as the national umbrella organization of the localist current of the German labor movement.