The General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers (German: Gesamtverband der Arbeitnehmer der öffentlichen Betriebe und des Personen- und Warenverkehrs, GV) was a trade union representing workers in various industries in Germany.

The small Union of Gardeners and Nursery Workers only represented workers in the private sector, and also agreed to be part of the merger, in order to establish a stronger section representing gardeners in both private and public sectors.

In December, the Union of German Professional Firefighters also voted in favour of joining: however, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which was influential in that union, opposed the merger, its supporters instead transferred to the German Civil Service Federation.

By 1931, Schumann was still unable to present a final cost estimate, and controversy over this led him to resign in November 1932.

[1] Müntner had been suffering from increasingly poor health, and resigned at the same time, the two being replaced by Otto Becker and Toni Reißner.