Sankt Gallen, CH-SG
Trade Union Secretary: Tertiary / Care 80-100%
- 01 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
About the job
Unia is the largest trade union in Switzerland. With our approximately 1200 employees, we are committed to fair working conditions and a fairer Switzerland. This is done dynamically and combatively. Would you like to stand up for a good cause? Let’s get to know each other.
Strengthen our team in the Eastern Switzerland-Graubünden region at the St. Gallen location immediately or by arrangement as
Trade Union Secretary 80-100% Tertiary / Care
Your impact
With dynamism and persuasiveness, you will work together with employees from care homes in Eastern Switzerland to improve working conditions. Your exciting tasks include addressing employees and translating their concerns into a collective movement to build trade union structures within the company and industry. In doing so, you support them in organising themselves, effectively representing their own interests, and enforcing them through creative campaigns. This also includes recruiting members.
Your profile
- Completed vocational training EFZ or at least equivalent
- Professional experience in care, retail, or gastronomy is an advantage
- Driving licence category B
- Able to engage in conversation with people from diverse backgrounds
- Committed, resourceful, responsible personality with persuasiveness
- Very good German. Migration language is an advantage
- Identification with trade union goals
What we offer
- Attractive salaries and good social benefits
- 40-hour week and at least 5 weeks’ holiday
- Part-time work, further training and work-life balance
- 19 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity leave at full pay
- Appreciative, collegial and lively environment
- Further benefits: unia.ch/benefits
Interested?
We look forward to receiving your complete application dossier (CV, certificates, diplomas and cover letter) via the link below.
If you have any questions about the position, please contact Danijela Dragicevic, KMB Manager Eastern Switzerland-Graubünden by email - personal-osgr@unia.ch or by phone at 0848 750 751