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Swedish Sailors' Union
The Swedish Sailors' Union ( sv, Svenska Sjöfolksförbundet, SSF) was a trade union representing sailors from Sweden. The union was established on 24 October 1932, with the merger of five unions: * Swedish American Line Supply Service Employees' Union * Swedish Association of Seafaring Women * Swedish Association of Stewards * Swedish Firemen's Union * Swedish Seamen's Union The union immediately affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. On founding, the union had 14,501 members, but the Swedish Association of Stewards left before the end of the year, and membership dropped to a low of 6,635 in 1944. It rapidly rebounded after World War II, and the Stewards finally rejoined in 1970. By 1995, it had 10,311 members. The following year, it merged into the Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ( sv, Service- och Kommunikationsfacket, SEKO) is a trade union in Sweden. History The union was ...
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Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ...
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Swedish Trade Union Confederation
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( sv, Landsorganisationen i Sverige ; literally "National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers. The Confederation, which gathers in total about 1.5 million employees out of Sweden's 10 million people population, was founded in 1898 by blue-collar unions on the initiative of the 1897 Scandinavian Labour Congress and the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which almost exclusively was made up by trade unions. In 2019 union density of Swedish blue-collar workers was 60%, a decline by seventeen percentage points since 2006 (blue-collar union density in 2006: 77%). A strongly contributing factor was the considerably raised fees to union unemployment funds in January 2007 made by the new centre-right government.Anders Kjellberg and Christian Lyhne Ibsen (2016"Attacks on union organizing: Reversible ...
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ...
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Swedish Union For Service And Communications Employees
The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ( sv, Service- och Kommunikationsfacket, SEKO) is a trade union in Sweden. History The union was founded on 14 May 1970, as the Swedish National Union of State Employees (SF). It resulted from the merger of eight unions: * Employees' Union of State Power Stations * Swedish Civil Administration's Employees' Union * Swedish Defence Forces Civilian Employees' Union * Swedish Post Union * Swedish Prison Employees' Union * Swedish Railway Employees' Union * Swedish Road Workers' Union * Swedish Tele Union Like all its predecessors, the union affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. On formation, it had 145,350 members, and it grew to 161,794 in 1986. The National Association of Civil Servants in Prisons split away in 1973. In 1995, the union became SEKO. The following year, the Swedish Sailors' Union merged in, then in 1997 the Swedish Association of Engine Drivers split away. By 2019, it had a membership ...
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Trade Unions Established In 1932
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products ...
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Trade Unions Disestablished In 1996
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products a ...
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