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Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union
The Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Lantarbetareförbundet, SLF) was a trade union representing farm workers in Sweden. The first Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union was established in 1908, with the merger of the Agricultural Workers' Union of Central Sweden and the Agricultural Workers' Union of Scania, but it failed to grow, and dissolved in 1912. On 6 October 1918, a new Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union was established, at a conference in Mjölby. It initially had 1,717 members, and was based in Nyköping, but moved its headquarters to Stockholm in 1921, by which time membership had grown to 15,674. That year, the Forest and Agricultural Workers' Union of Central Sweden rejoined, having split away in 1919.{{cite book , last1=Ebbinghaus , first1=Bernhard , last2=Visser , first2=Jelle , title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 , date=2000 , publisher=Palgrave Macmillan , location=Basingstoke , isbn=0333771125 , page=626–630 The Agricultural W ...
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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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Farm Workers Union Of Central Sweden
Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden ( sv, Mellersta Sverges lantarbetareförbund) was a trade union for agricultural workers in Sweden. The organization was active between 1906 and 1908. Carl Albert Svedberg was the chairman of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden.Thörnquist, Annette. Lönearbete eller egen jord?: den svenska lantarbetarrörelsen och jordfrågan 1908-1936 = [Wages or land?] : [the Swedish rural labor movement and the land question 1908-1936]'. Studia historica Upsaliensia, 157. Uppsala: Univ, 1989. p. 34 As of September 1907 the union had around one hundred local sections. The membership of the Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden was to a large extent concentrated to certain large agricultural estates.Sweden. Sociala meddelanden', Volume 15-16. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt and söner, 1918. p. 638 The key areas of activities of the union were located around Mälaren. The organization also established its presence in Västergötland, Östergöt ...
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Mjölby
Mjölby ( or ) is a city and the seat of Mjölby Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,245 inhabitants in 2010. Mjölby is located by the rivulet Svartån. The name "Mjölby" is derived from ''Mölloby'', which comes from or ''mölna'', meaning "mill". Due to the rapids of Svartån and the fertile soils of the surrounding plains, Mjölby is a natural place for a mill. During the Dacke War in 1542–1543 Mjölby was the northernmost point reached by the rebels from Småland. Main attractions * Skogsjöområdets Naturreservat (Nature reserve and camping) * Mjölby Hembygdsförening Donationsmedel (Park and garden) * Runestones of Högby (Historical landmark) * Örbackens kalkkärr (National reserve) Sports The following sports clubs are located in Mjölby: * Mjölby AI FF * Mjölby HC * Mjölby Södra IF * Mjölby Turabdin FC * Mjölby Allmänna Ryttarsällskap * Mjölby Ridklubb * Mjölby IBK (Black bears) Twinnings * Hankasalmi Hankasalmi is a municipality of ...
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Nyköping
Nyköping () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the southern shore of the bay just a couple of kilometres from the city centre, Nyköping would have above 36,000 inhabitants. Commonly, Arnö is referred to as a part of the city proper. It forms a wider conurbation with the neighbouring minor municipality and town of Oxelösund south of its outskirts. The municipality is much larger, although sparsely populated outside of the urban area. Nyköping directly translates to ''Newmarket'' into English. The prefix ''Ny'' is translated as New and ''köping'' is an old Swedish word for a market place and a commonly used suffix for cities in the south central region of the country (see Köping). The city is located near the open Baltic Sea on the Stadsfjärden inlet, and is regarded as a coastal loc ...
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Farm Workers Union Of Småland
The Farm Workers Union of Småland ( sv, Smålands lantarbetareförbund) was a trade union for agricultural workers in Småland, Sweden. The union was founded in 1919.Back, Pär-Erik. En klass i uppbrott; den fackliga lantarbetarrörelsens uppkomst och utveckling'. Stockholm: Svenska lantarbetareförbundet, 1961. p. 131 The Farm Workers Union of Småland was connected to the Trade Union Propaganda League and the Social Democratic Left Party. The Social Democratic Left Party and the Social Democratic Youth League carried out agitations in Småland during 1919. As a result of the agitations, the Farm Workers Union of Småland was set up as an independent regional agricultural workers' organization. Two men from Huskvarna Huskvarna (; formerly spelled ''Husqvarna'') constitutes the eastern part of Jönköping, a city in the Sweden, Swedish province of Småland, and has a population of about 24,000. The distance to central Jönköping is about 5 km. The name ... shared th ...
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Swedish Garden Workers Union
The Swedish Garden Workers Union ( sv, Svenska trädgårdsarbetareförbundet) was a trade union garden workers in Sweden. The union was founded on December 29, 1906. It was however disbanded in 1909. The union was revived in 1918. Its first section were the Garden Workers of Stockholm.Ståhl, Margareta. Vår enighets fana: ett sekel fackliga fanor'. Stockholm: LO, 1998. p. 229 The union published ''Trädgårdsarbetaren'' ('The Garden Worker') between 1918 and 1920. A total of ten issues were published. John H. Johansson served as editor 1918-1919, Emil Erlandsson became editor in 1920. Between 1921 and 1924 the union published the monthly ''Svenska trädgårdsarbetaren''.http://www.kslab.ksla.se/periofor.htm The union merged into the Farm Workers Union of Sweden The Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Lantarbetareförbundet, SLF) was a trade union representing farm workers in Sweden. The first Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union was established in 1908, with the ...
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Forest And Farm Workers Union Of Sweden
The Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges skogs- och lantarbetareförbund) was a revolutionary trade union for forestry and agricultural workers in Sweden.Thörnquist, Annette. Lönearbete eller egen jord?: den svenska lantarbetarrörelsen och jordfrågan 1908-1936 = [Wages or land?] : [the Swedish rural labor movement and the land question 1908-1936]'. Studia historica Upsaliensia, 157. Uppsala: Univ, 1989. p. 94 The union was founded in 1921.Back, Pär-Erik. En klass i uppbrott; den fackliga lantarbetarrörelsens uppkomst och utveckling'. Stockholm: Svenska lantarbetareförbundet, 1961. p. 140 The union had its main base in Dalarna, but also had local sections in Södermanland, Västergötland and scattered locations across central Sweden. History Political division in the farm workers movement The union was founded in response to an anti-communist purge in the Farm Workers Union of Sweden following its March 1921 congress in Norrköping. A ...
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Farm Workers Union Of Uppland
The Farm Workers Union of Uppland ( sv, Upplands lantarbetareförbund, abbreviated ULF) was a trade union for agricultural workers in Uppland, Sweden. ULF was founded on December 1, 1918. The union was active parallel to the Farm Workers Union of Sweden (SLF).Ståhl, Margareta. Vår enighets fana: ett sekel fackliga fanor'. Stockholm: LO, 1998. p. 230 In 1919, SLF and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) begin pressuring ULF to merge with SLF,Johanson, Curt. Lantarbetarna i Uppland, 1918-1930'. 1970. p. 9 which finally came about in 1930. The existence of an independent union of agricultural labourers in Uppland could partly be explained by the fact that living conditions for '' statare'' were worse in Uppland than in other regions of the country. The Uppland plains north of Mälaren were completely dominated by estates of large landowners.Johanson, Curt. Lantarbetarna i Uppland, 1918-1930'. 1970. p. 15 During the early 1920s, Uppland had the highest percentage of union o ...
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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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Swedish Municipal Workers' Union
The Swedish Municipal Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Kommunalarbetareförbundet), is the largest trade union in Sweden with 570 000 members as of 2005, it was created 1910. It is commonly referred to as ''Kommunal'' ("''Municipal''"). The union was founded in Stockholm on 23 January 1910, as a split from the Swedish Factory Workers' Union. Like its predecessor, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. It initially had 1,218 members, but grew rapidly. The Swedish Tramwaymen's Union left in 1917, but rejoined the following year. The Swedish Firefighters' Union joined in 1918, then the Swedish Hospital Staff Union split away in 1923, rejoining in 1945. By this point, the union had 59,426 members. The Swedish Vergers' Union joined in 1946, then the State Hospital Personnel Union in 1967, the Swedish Chimney Sweeps' Union in 1981, and the Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union in 2001. Its peak membership was 651,670 in 1991, and as of 2019 it stood at 500,560. The m ...
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Gunnar Sträng
Gunnar Georg Emanuel Sträng (23 December 1906 – 7 March 1992) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, most known for being Sweden's longest serving minister for finance. Sträng grew up in a working-class family in Lövsta, today a part of Stockholm Municipality. After finishing school he started work as a gardener. In 1927 he joined the local branch of the gardeners' union and was soon elected to the board as secretary. A few years later, in 1932, he was elected as an official to the national union organisation for agricultural workers, with the task of recruiting new members in order to force the employers to consent to collective bargaining. In 1938, he was elected vice chairman of the trade union and the following year he succeeded the chairman. Through the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Sträng was appointed as a representative on various state committees, and on 6 July 1945 Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson offered him the position of minister of agriculture. St ...
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Börje Svensson
Börje Svensson (born 1928) is a Swedish former trade union leader. Born in Blekinge, Svensson began working as a cowhand, and also joined the Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union (SLF). He was soon elected as the education officer of his local branch, and also undertook his own studies, which enabled him to become a foreman at some stables. He went on to study labour movement relations, after which, the SLF nominated him to the Industrial Relations Board. In 1967, Svensson became the full-time Working Environment Officer at the SLF headquarters. In 1973, he was elected as president of the SLF, also serving on the executives of the Agricultural Credit Bank and that of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In 1982, he was additionally elected as president of the International Federation of Plantation and Agricultural Workers (IFPAAW), then in 1988 he was elected as its full-time general secretary. Under his leadership, IFPAAW merged into the International Union of F ...
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