Bjarne Saltnes (26 February 1934 – 16 May 2016) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

Skaun Skaun is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvika, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja. Skaun is ...

as a son of a mill worker, and after vocational school as a carpenter in 1951, and some years as a construction labourer, he worked at the mill ''J.C. Piene & Søn'' from 1964 to 1997. From 1972 to 1994 he was a board member of the company as an employees' representative, and from 1977 to 1986 he chaired the trade union . Saltnes was a member of the Labour Party for over fifty years, and was a member of

Buvik Buvik is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Buvik existed from 1855 until 1965. The municipality encompassed the extreme northeastern part of what is now the municipality of Skaun in Trøndelag county. It encompas ...

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from 1955 to 1963. After a municipal merger, he sat in Skaun municipal council from 1965 to 1975 and 1979 to 1991, serving as mayor in 1971–1975 and 1979–1983. He chaired Skaun Labour Party from 1965 to 1967. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag during the terms 1977–1981, 1981–1985 and 1985–1989. In total he met during 238 days of parliamentary session. Saltnes also chaired

Buvik IL Buvik Idrettslag is a multi-sports team from Buvik in Skaun, Norway. In 2012, the club's first football team played in the Second Division In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest divisi ...

in 1951–1952 and 1960–1962, held other municipal posts, and was a member of from 1972 to 1986.

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1934 births 2016 deaths People from Skaun Deputy members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Sør-Trøndelag Norwegian trade unionists {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub