Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union

The Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (German: Gewerkschaft Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr, ÖTV) was a trade union representing transport and public service workers in West Germany.

Unlike the pre-war General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers, it did not represent postal workers (who joined the German Postal Union), nor commercial workers, but it was nonetheless the second-largest union in West Germany.

By 1951, it had 785,000 members, and during the 1950s it concluded many collective bargaining agreements with states and municipalities.

[1] The union strongly supported the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in June 1990, some trade unionists in Magdeberg founded the ÖTV in the GDR.

[1] In 1994, the union was restructured, with its 41 departments grouped into six sections.