The Swedish Bricklayers' Union ( sv, Svenska Murareförbundet, Murare) was a trade union representing bricklayers in Sweden.
The union was founded on 14 December 1890, at a conference in
Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
, and then refounded in 1892 in
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
. It joined the
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 ...
in 1899. The union initially had 629 members, but grew steadily, reaching 4,468 by 1908, and 14,140 in 1960. In 1961, it merged into the
Swedish Building Workers' Union
The Swedish Building Workers' Union ( sv, Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet, Byggnads) is a trade union representing workers in the construction industry in Sweden.
The union was established on 1 January 1949, when the Swedish Building Wood Wor ...
.
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Presidents
:1894: Nils Persson
:1922: Victor Björkman
:1950: Gösta Bengtsson
References
Swedish Trade Union Confederation
Bricklayers' trade unions
Trade unions in Sweden
Trade unions established in 1890
Trade unions disestablished in 1961
1890 establishments in Sweden
1961 disestablishments in Sweden