Member profit for the AOb
In 2019 the AOb has grown considerably, slightly more than 2.300 members have been added. Membership profit follows a dip in the previous year.
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On January 1, 2020, the AOb a total of 84.064 members, 2.304 more than the year before. About half can be attributed to organic growth of the AOb, mainly due to extra membership gains during the promotions in March and November 2019. The other half is the result of the fusion with the union for science Vawo. All in all, membership increased by 2,8 percent.
Entire education sector
The greatest growth was in primary and special education (+ 1.424) and secondary education (+ 940). Due to the merger with the Vawo, the AOb now active throughout the education sector. At universities and research institutions, the counter for the number of members at the start of the year is 1.197. The number of retired members is decreasing again.
The growth of the AOb seems to continue in the first months of 2020, in January and February returns to show gains. In recent years, the membership of the AOb between 82 thousand and 86 thousand.
Positive trend
If we look back, there is still a positive trend since the start of the AOb on January 1, 1998, the union had 71.687 members. Certainly with regard to the trends in the union world, the AOb it's relatively good. When the number of total union members remained more or less stable in the period 1998-2011, the AOb. Since 2012, all unions have been losing significantly, but the AOb keep the number of members stable with ups and downs.
Source: CBS and AOb-member file, 2018 * unions NL estimate, no Statistics Netherlands data
