On the afternoon of Wednesday 01 June 2022 the WOW-Europe Council took place. One of the items on the agenda was the elections for the new WOW-Europe Board.
Wolfgang Pischinger was unanimously reelected to a second four-year term as president of WOW-Europe. The Treasurer, Rolf Weber, was also re-elected.
The new WOW-Europe Board for the period 2022-2026 consists of the following persons:
- President: Mr. Wolfgang Pischinger (Austria)
- Treasurer: Mr. Rolf Weber (Denmark)
- Vice-President: Mr. Mikael Arendt Laursen (Denmark)
- Member Board: Ms. Ike Wiersinga (Netherlands)
- Member Board: Ms. Cornelia Pöttinger (Austria)
- Member Board: Mr. António Manuel Carita Franco (Portugal)
- Member Board: Ms. Tatjana Roeder (Germany)
- Member Board: Ms. Marija Jovanovi? (Serbia)
- Member Board: Mr. Erik Maas (co-opted) (Netherlands)
Not for election:
- Executive Secretary: Mr. Bjørn Anders van Heusden (Netherlands)
Cornelia Pöttinger was co-opted at the WOW-Europe meeting in Porto, Lisbon on 08 October 2019. Tatjana Roeder had been participating as observer since the WOW-Europe video-meeting on 21 April 2021. They were formally elected by the WOW-Europe Council. New in the WOW-Europe Board are António Manuel Carita Franco and Marija Jovanovi?. Erik Maas was co-opted shortly after the elections.
This also means that some colleagues left the WOW-Europe board. Mara Erdelj (Serbia), Adalbert Ewen (Germany) and Gonzalo Postigo Zabay (Spain) did not candidate themselves. The board of WOW-Europe as well as WOW thank them both for all they have done for the trade union movement in general and the WOW in particular.
