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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Prison Employees' Union
The Swedish Prison Employees' Union ( sv, Svenska Vårdpersonalförbundet was a trade union representing prison staff in Sweden. The union was founded on 7 June 1906 in Gothenburg, as the Swedish Prison Guards' Union. It grew slowly, with 496 members in 1910, and 1,557 by 1954. It affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1939, and in 1948, it moved its headquarters to Stockholm. By 1969, it had 3,829 members. The following year, it merged into the new Swedish National Union of State 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 resul ....{{cite book , last1=Kjellberg , first1=Anders , title=The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century , date=2017 , publisher=Lund University , isbn=917267310 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions Established In 1970
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions In Sweden
The economy of Sweden is a highly developed export-oriented economy, aided by timber, hydropower, and iron ore. These constitute the resource base of an economy oriented toward foreign trade. The main industries include motor vehicles, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, industrial machines, precision equipment, chemical goods, home goods and appliances, forestry, iron, and steel. Traditionally, Sweden relied on a modern agricultural economy that employed over half the domestic workforce. Today Sweden further develops engineering, mine, steel, and pulp industries, which are competitive internationally, as evidenced by companies like Ericsson, ASEA/ABB, SKF, Alfa Laval, AGA, and Dyno Nobel. Sweden is a competitive open mixed economy. The vast majority of Swedish enterprises are privately owned and market-oriented. There is also a strong welfare state, with public-sector spending accounting up to three-fifths of GDP. In 2014, the percent of national wealth owned by the gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Persson
Curt Persson (8 November 1938 – 23 November 2020) was a Swedish trade union leader. Persson started work in 1954 as a postman and joined the Swedish Post Union. In 1961, he became education officer for its Malmö branch, later serving as its secretary, then its chair. In 1969, he began working full-time for the Cartel of State Employees, then from 1970 as an organiser for the Swedish National Union of State Employees (SF). From 1972, he was a negotiator for the union, then chief negotiator from 1978. In 1984, he was elected as president of SF, in which role he encouraged it to recruit outside the public sector. In 1990, Persson was additionally elected as president of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International (PTTI), championing it working more closely with the International Graphical Federation and the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees The International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Tele Union
The Swedish Tele Union ( sv, Svenska Teleförbundet, SvT) was a trade union representing workers in the telecommunications industry in Sweden. The union was founded on 24 June 1901, at a conference in Norrköping, as the Swedish National Telephone and Telegraph Workers' Union. It initially had 200 members. The Association of Telegraph Offices' Assistants split away in 1905, but it merged into the Traffic Employees' Union of Telegraph Administration in 1918, and rejoined the SvT in 1939. The Association of Telegraph Offices' Assistants joined in 1916, while the Association of Radio Operators of Telecommunications Administration joined in 1918, but left again in 1920. In 1919, the Union of Telegraph Administration Employees split away from the SvT, but it rejoined in 1939.{{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=033377112 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Road Workers' Union
The Swedish Road Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Vägarbetareförbundet, SVaf) was a trade union representing road and railway maintenance workers in Sweden. The union was founded in 1914, as the Swedish Road Construction Workers' Union, a split from the Swedish Factory Workers' Union. It immediately affiliated to the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions, and secured its first collective agreement in 1924. It was originally based in Krylbo, but moved its headquarters to Stockholm in 1939. Membership peaked that year, at 27,169, then slowly declined. In 1949, it members involved in construction were transferred to the new Swedish Building Workers' Union. By 1969, the union had 15,776 members, of whom only 11 were women. The following year, it merged into the new Swedish National Union of State 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Railway Employees' Union
The Swedish Railway Employees' Union ( sv, Svenska Järnvägsmannaförbundet, SJMF) was a trade union representing workers in the railway industry in Sweden. The union was founded on 12 May 1899 by 400 workers on private railways. It was joined by the Swedish Association of Railway Workers in 1903, the Association of State Railways' Car and Engine Shed Employees, and the Swedish Association of State Linemen in 1904. In 1906, both the Swedish State Railways Association of Foremen, Labourers and Office Workers and the Association of State Railways Engine Workers joined. By 1907, it had 27,694 members, of which the majority worked for the state railways.{{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 In 1920, the Swedish State Railways' Guard Union joined, and in 1922, the SJMF affiliated to the Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Post Union
The Swedish Post Union ( sv, Svenska Postförbundet, SPF) was a trade union representing postal workers in Sweden. The union was founded on 8 October 1886 at a conference in Stockholm. It was initially very small, with only 75 members by the end of 1887, but it grew steadily; although the Stockholm Association of Postmen broke away in 1890, it rejoined in 1896. The Swedish Association of Sorting Clerks split away in 1912, but rejoined in 1917, by which time the SPF had 2,915 members. In 1920, the union absorbed the Swedish Association of Rural Postmen, and in 1936, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. The Swedish Association of Post Office Managers joined in 1947. By 1969, the union had a record 27,451 members. The following year, it merged with seven others, to form the Swedish National Union of State Employees The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ( sv, Service- och Kommunikationsfacket, SEKO) is a trade union in Sweden. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Services International
Public Services International (PSI) is the global union federation for workers in public services, including those who work in social services, health care, municipal services, central government and public utilities. , PSI has 700 affiliated trade unions from 154 countries representing over 30 million workers. History In March 1907, the executive of the German Union of Municipal and State Workers, based in Berlin, issued a call to "workers employed in municipal and state undertakings, in power stations, in gas and waterworks, in all countries" to attend an international conference in August 1907, in Stuttgart. Four Danes, two Dutchmen, eight Germans, a Hungarian, a Swede and a Swiss met in the Stuttgart trade union building for the First Congress of Public Services International, representing 44,479 workers, and they founded the International Secretariat of the Workers in Public Services. This grew rapidly, and by 1913 represented more than 100,000 workers, enabling a part- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Defence Forces Civilian Employees' Union
The Swedish Defence Forces Civilian Employees' Union ( sv, Försvarsverkens Civila Personals Förbund, FCPF) was a trade union representing civilian staff in the Swedish Armed Forces. The union was established on 29 December 1917 as the Army Civilian Employees' Union, and appointed its first full-time leader in 1919. In 1920, it became the FCPF, and in 1921 the Naval Shipyard Workers' Union merged in. The union affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1935, and grew rapidly during World War II, membership peaking at 22,271 in 1944. It remained fairly stable over the next few decades, and stood at 18,377 in 1969. The following year, it merged into the new Swedish National Union of State 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 resul ....{{cite book , last1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
