The Building Maintenance Workers' Union (, Faf) is a

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. The union was founded on 26 April 1936 at a conference in

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. It affiliated to the

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in 1938. It absorbed the Stockholm Union of Cleaners in 1948, and rose to a peak membership of 44,302 in 1998. By 2019, its membership had fallen to 25,634. Fastighets represents building maintenance workers employed by private, cleaners in cleaning companies, window cleaners and employees of Folkets Hus (

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