Who cleans your office at night? Who puts fresh food on supermarket shelves each day? In a short documentary, “The Indispensables,” cleaner Güven Ciftci, care worker Cynthia Würpel and DHL parcel delivery driver Khaleel Al Bodach take viewers behind the scenes of their daily working lives. Often unseen, our society nonetheless would not function without their work.  You can find the film, in German, on YouTube.-fw

Katrin Rulle

At the day’s third event, Philipp Türmer, Chair of Germany’s Jusos, the Working Group of Young Socialists in Germany’s Social Democratic Party; Konstantin Bärwaldt, FES; Esther Lynch, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation; and Kate Bell, Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, are discussing the indispensable role of workers and the fact that social democracy must not forget them. Johanna Siebert, DPZ, iis moderating their talk in the Frida Kahlo Room. -nk

Katrin Rulle