Gisela Kessler

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Gisela Kessler (June 3, 1935 – May 14, 2014) was a German trade unionist.^[1]^[2]

Life

Kessler was born in Frankfurt am Main. She worked as a Clerk for Deutsche Bundespost, studied at the Akademie der Arbeit in Frankfurt and worked for the German Confederation of Trade Unions from 1967. From 1971 to 1991 she worked for the Printing and Paper Union, later the Media Union. She was vice chairwoman of IG Medien until 1995. Gisela Kessler was affiliated with the German Communist Party. In 2005 she was one of the founders of Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. She was member of The Left.

References

^ Junkers, Dorothée (21 November 2004). "Neue Linkspartei: Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 27 September 2011.
^ "Abschied von einer kämpferischen Gewerkschafterin". Kommunisten.de. May 15, 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.

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