The Education and Science Workers’ Union (, 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 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 External links www.gew.de www.fair-childhood.eu German Trade Union Confederation Education trade unions Trade unions in Germany Trade unions established in 1948