General Education Union

The General Education Union (Dutch: Algemene Onderwijsbond, AOb) is a trade union representing teachers, lecturers and support staff in education, in the Netherlands.

The union was founded on 1 January 1997, when the General Union of Education Personnel merged with Dutch Association of Teachers. It affiliated to the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions. By 1998, it had 72,206 members,[1][2] and in 2008, this had grown slightly, to 77,943.[3]

At the start of 2020, the union absorbed Vawo, a union for university researchers.[4]

Presidents

1997: Jacques Tichelaar
2002: Walter Dresscher
2015: Liesbeth Verheggen
2019: Eugenie Stolk
  1. ^ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 463–465. ISBN 0333771125.
  2. ^ "Over de AOb". AOb. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  3. ^ Breij, Bert (2008). Twee miljoen leden (PDF). Amsterdam: Vakbondshistorische Vereniging. p. 235. ISBN 978 90 71562 06 8. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  4. ^ "AOb en Vawo gaan definitief samen". AOb. Retrieved 6 November 2020.