The Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union (HRF) is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

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History

The union was founded on 31 March 1918 in

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as the Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Personnel Union, bringing together local unions from Gothenburg,

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , ), is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania County, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, ninth ...

and Stockholm. It originally had 2,498, a total which fluctuated over the next 15 years. In 1932, it affiliated to the

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( ; literally "The 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-c ...

, and membership grew steadily, reaching a peak of 59,681 in 1999. Since then, it fell rapidly, and in 2019 membership stood at 26,562.

Presidents

:1950: Arne Axelsson :1968:

Sigvard Nyström Sigvard Nyström (13 August 1916 – 1994) was a Swedish trade union leader and anti-fascist. Born in Stockholm, he found work as a lift attendant in a warehouse for the SARA restaurant, where he joined the Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Worker ...

:1978: Hans Billström :1988: Seine Svensk :1990s: Birgitta Kihlberg :2005: Ella Niia :2014: Therese Guovelin :2016: Malin Ackholt

References

External links

* Swedish Trade Union Confederation Hospitality industry trade unions Trade unions in Sweden Trade unions established in 1918 1918 establishments in Sweden {{Sweden-org-stub