Building Maintenance Workers' Union (Sweden)
The Building Maintenance Workers' Union (Swedish: Fastighetsanställdas Förbund, Faf) is a trade union in Sweden.
Building Maintenance Workers' Union | |
Fastighetsanställdas Förbund | |
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| Founded | 26 April 1936 |
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| Headquarters | Stockholm |
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Members | 26,324(2018)[1] |
Key people | Magnus Pettersson, president |
| Affiliations | LO, UNI |
| Website | www.fastighets.se |
The union was founded on 26 April 1936 at a conference in Stockholm. It affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1938. It absorbed the Stockholm Union of Cleaners in 1948, and rose to a peak membership of 44,302 in 1998. By 2019, however, its membership had fallen to 25,634.[2]
Faf represents building maintenance workers employed by private cleaners in cleaning companies, window cleaners and employees of Folkets Hus (Labour Movement Community Centres).
References
edit- ^ Kjellberg, Anders (2017). "The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century" (PDF). Lund University. p. 145. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ Kjellberg, Anders (2017). The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century. Lund University. pp. 151–153. ISBN 9172673109.
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