The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees ( no, Fagforbundet) is a

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 ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. It has a membership of 395,000 and is affiliated with the

Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions ( no, Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, LO) is a national trade union center, decidedly the largest and probably the most influential umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway. The 21 national union ...

(LO). It was founded in 2003 as a merger of the

Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees The Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees ( no, Norsk Kommuneforbund, NKF) was a trade union in Norway, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. It was founded in 1920 as the Norwegian Municipal Workers' Union, a spli ...

and the

Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel The Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel ( no, Norsk Helse- og Sosialforbund, NHS) was a trade union representing auxiliary nurses and care workers in Norway. The union was founded in 1965 as the Norwegian Nursing Auxiliaries' ...

. In 2020, it was joined by the

Norwegian Post and Communications Union The Norwegian Post and Communications Union ( no, Norsk Post- og Kommunikasjonsforbund, POSTKOM) was a trade union representing workers in the postal and telecommunication sectors in Norway. The union was formed in 2000 by the merger of the Nor ...

Presidents

:2003:

Jan Davidsen Jan Davidsen (born 24 July 1950) is a Norwegian trade unionist. He is a firefighter by vocation and worked as such in Bergen. He was elected to the leadership in the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees in 1985, became deputy leader in 1990 and ...

:2013: Mette Nord

References

Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions Trade unions established in 2003 {{Europe-trade-union-stub