Education and Science Workers' Union
2 Andreas Keller
The Union for Education and Science ( General German teachers and teachers - association ) - Association of Teachers, educators (GEW ) is a trade union in the German Trade Union Federation (DGB ), headquartered in Frankfurt am Main and a " Parliamentary Liaison Office " in Berlin. The GEW is a member of Education International.
The GEW is the largest education union of Germany; The end of 2013 belonged to her over 270 073 members. In order for Member development of PRO was positive for six years. Its members work in educational and scientific professions in schools of different secondary school, day care centers and youth centers, at universities, scientific institutions and research facilities at community colleges and other institutions of further and to Goethe Institutes. In the academic area of focus has been the members at primary, secondary and comprehensive schools in the East German Länder at high schools.
Objectives
The GEW is in favor of equal opportunities, participation as well as for social security and democracy. The GEW favors the common longer learning about the elementary school addition, following the example of Scandinavia and the same pay of teachers of all types of teaching.
History
The PRO was founded in 1948.
The Hamburg State Association of GEW celebrated in November 2005 the regional 200 - year existence, because he sees himself in the wake of the Society of Friends of patriotic education and the educational system. Another precursor, which was founded in August 1848 in Dresden and in the fall of 1848 in Eisenach General German Teachers' Association is concerned, its activity is largely confined to the publication of the General German teacher newspaper because of the political restoration in 1849. He represented from the outset almost exclusively the teachers of the elementary school. As of December 1871 there were after the founding of the German Reich -reach the German Teachers' Association ( DLV) in Berlin. The meetings of the Association, whose number of visitors increased until about 5000 were held regularly; since 1876, alternating with a Delegiertentag of German and Prussian state teachers association until 1893, the merger of these associations came about. The influential association had 45 branch associations and 3,000 individual organizations in 1904 to 105,000 members. His body remained the " General German teacher newspaper " ( Leipzig).
1919 Free Teachers' Union of Germany was founded in Gotha as a socialist alternative to DLV. In 1933, all trade unions into line and banned organizations outside the National Socialist Teachers Association.
In 1947, in Detmold the General German teachers and teachers association for the British occupation zone, then in 1948 in the Education and Science Union came up.
1990 included the PRO to about 189,000 members. The members of the trade unions in the GDR " teaching and education " and " science" in fdgb were taken to a large extent in the PRO, so that the number of members rose sharply in the short term. The PRO has since been regarded as a strong ostdeutsch oriented union, which was reflected in 1997 in the election of Eva -Maria Stange for national chairman. She was the first East German to lead a DGB trade union.
2012, the PRO joined the alliance Umfairteilen.
Organization
Your current rules took the Trade Union Congress, the supreme governing body of the GEW, on 4 June 1968. The statute has since been amended several times. The Federal is coordinated by the Main Board and the Executive Board. There are specialists and group presentations. Among them work 16 independent national associations.
The GEW is a monthly magazine " Education and Science " out and a theoretical quarterly journal " The German School".
The PRO has two youth organizations:
The boy is like the PRO BASS member of the DGB youth.
As " education union " sees the GEW your competence in the areas of education daycare, school, youth services, vocational training, science and education.
The " science" is administered at the federal level in the Board of Higher Education and Research, which is headed by Andreas Keller since 1 January 2007. The Trade Union Congress of the GEW 2009 " democratize science, open universities, develop quality of research and teaching, improve work and study conditions " a science policy program under the motto adopted. In 2011, the PRO in front of her " Templin Manifesto" for a reform of personnel structure and careers in academia and research. In 2012 she was with the " Herrschinger Code" universities and research institutes recommendations, to commit to stable employment and predictable career paths for scientists.
Foundations
The GEW in 1960 founded the Max Traeger Foundation, named after the first PRO - chairman in 1947, the Hamburg FDP formation politician Max Traeger. The purpose of this foundation is to promote the scientific study of educational reality, the reality in schools and higher reality. Funding research projects and scientific publications. The small foundation is fed from the income of the members of the Executive Board of the GEW and contributions from PRO - members.
There is also the Heinrich- Rodensteinstrasse funds, the education and promotion work and the initiative "Fair Childhood - GEW Foundation for Education held child labor ".
Partners and competitors
The GEW is a member of the German Trade Union Federation, its member trade union Verdi also employees of the university, non- university research and training, as well as in the social and educational field represents. Outside the DGB unions compete GEW especially in the area of teachers from all types of schools with religious, regional and school-type specific organizations, many of which are themselves organized in the German Civil Service Federation. Differences exist primarily in the positions for the right to strike for civil servants and the approximation of working hours and pay. In addition, the PRO favored in contrast to other teachers' associations the common long learning along the lines of Scandinavia and advocates a stronger inclusion.