Education and Science Workers' Union (Germany)

The Education and Science Workers’ Union (German: Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, GEW) is a trade union in Germany. It has a membership of 280,343 and is one of eight industrial affiliates of the German Confederation of Trade Unions. Most members are teachers, but it also represents day care workers, social workers, private educators, researchers and professors.

GEW

Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
Logos of the GEW, newer one in the background
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Frankfurt, Germany
Location	Germany
Members	280,343
Key people	Ulrich Thöne, president
Affiliations	DGB
Website	www.gew.de

GEW is founding member of the Berlin Energy Table which successfully pushed for a Referendum on the recommunalization of energy supply in Berlin 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

• ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

External links

• Organized labour portal

• www.gew.de
• www.fair-childhood.eu