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Trade Union Federation for Professionals

Dutch trade union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ17381008 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Trade Union Federation for Professionals (Dutch: Vakcentrale voor Professionals, VCP) is a national trade union centre bringing together unions representing managers and professionals in the Netherlands.

The federation was established in 1974, as the Federation of Middle and Higher Personnel. By 1998, it had only four affiliates, of which, the Dutch Central Organisation of Middle and Higher Personnel, and the Central Union of Middle and Higher Civil Servants and Staff were federations of smaller unions. It became the VHP in 2014, and it is affiliated to the European Trade Union Confederation.

Editorial summary

“Trade Union Federation for Professionals” enters the record as dutch trade union. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trade, Union and Federation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1998, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trade, Union and Federation.
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Why this record matters

“Trade Union Federation for Professionals” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Trade, Union and Federation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17381008. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1998 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trade Union Federation for Professionals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.