Chamber for Workers and Employees

The Chamber of Labour (German: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, shortform Arbeiterkammer or AK), is an organisation that represents the interests of 4 million Austrian employees and consumers.

Together, the ÖGB and the Arbeiterkammer represent the interests of employees in the Austrian system of Sozialpartnerschaft ("Social Partnership"), which plays a major role in the regulation of wages and prices.

The Chamber also consult individuals with issues related to their jobs, apprenticeships, or public employment service (AMS).

As the education of employees is an important concern of the Chamber, it operates numerous publicly accessible libraries.

Since the election in 1949, the FSG (Fraktion Sozialdemokratischer GewerkschafterInnen, afflilated with the SPÖ) has always won with an absolute majority.

Following increasing criticism of compulsory membership and tax-like financing the Chambers of Labour (AK) conducted a member survey in 1996.