Since our association was founded, we have been supported by IG Medien, the former printers’ union. After IG Medien merged into the newly founded trade union ver.di in Section 8, the pensioners of the former Hildesheim branch continued this tradition. As in the previous year, the colleagues visited us with their chairman Seppel Meier – now over 90 years old.
After viewing all the new features, we sat together over coffee and cake. This time, the topic of discussion was the situation of young people who have not yet been offered apprenticeships. This group, which numbers around 300,000 young people nationwide, seems to have been sorted out – they do not receive any apprenticeship offers. The vicious circle is pre-programmed: the older they get, the more hopeless their situation becomes and the more hopeless their chances of finding an apprenticeship. Politics and business are urgently called upon to put an end to this socio-political madness. As an ageing society, we are probably not in a position to do without these young people.
