The Education and Science Workers’ Union (german: Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, GEW) is a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...

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. It has a membership of 280,343 and is one of eight industrial affiliates of the

German Confederation of Trade Unions The German Trade Union Confederation (german: Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund; DGB) is an umbrella organisation (sometimes known as a national trade union center) for eight German trade unions, in total representing more than 6 million people ...

. Most members are teachers, but it also represents day care workers, social workers, private educators, researchers and professors. GEW is founding member of the ''Berlin Energy Table'' which successfully pushed for a

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in 2013.

Trusts

Fair Childhood

A charitable trust founded by the trades union GEW with the mission to use education to fight child labour ("Bildung statt Kinderarbeit").

Presidents

:1947: Max Traeger :1952: Bernhard Plewe :1958: Max Traeger :1960: Heinrich Rodenstein :1968: Erich Frister :1981: Dieter Wunder :1997: Eva-Maria Stange :2005: Ulrich Thöne :2013: Marlis Tepe :2021: Maike Finnern

References

External links

www.gew.dewww.fair-childhood.eu
German Trade Union Confederation Education trade unions Trade unions in Germany Trade unions established in 1948 {{Germany-org-stub