Council of Nordic Trade Unions - Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, Lo, the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (Paperback)

Chapters: Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, Lo, the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, Ftf - Confederation of Professionals in Denmark, Ac - the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations, Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland, Confederation of State and Municipal Employees of Iceland, Icelandic Federation of Labour, Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (Tjanstemannens Centralorganisation or TCO) is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation for eighteen trade unions in Sweden that organise professional and other qualified employees within both the private and the public sectors. The affiliated trade unions gather in total about 1.3 million employees. This makes the organization the second biggest of Sweden's three major trade union confederations. The biggest, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen i Sverige or LO), mainly organize "blue collar" workers, and has links to the Swedish Social Democratic Party. By contrast, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees has no connections to any political party in Sweden. The current president is Sture Nordh, who took office in 1999. He is a former president of the Swedish Union of Local Government Officers ("SKTF"). The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees traces its origins back to the Confederation of Employees (De Anstalldas Centralorganisation or DACO) founded in 1931. An organization for public sector employees called the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees was founded in 1937. The two organizations merged into one in 1944, taking the name of the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=94973