Finnish Transport Workers' Union

{{short description|Trade union of Finland}}

{{Infobox union

| native_name = Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto

| native_name_lang= fi

| founded = {{start date and age|1970}}

| predecessor = Automobile and Transport Workers' Union
Finnish Road Transport Union
Finnish Port Workers' Union

| members = 45,000 (2021)

| website = {{URL|https://www.akt.fi}}

| headquarters = Helsinki, Finland

| key_people = Marko Piirainen (President)

| affiliation = {{hlist|Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions|Nordic Transport Workers' Union|European Transport Workers' Union|International Transport Workers' Federation}}

| image = John Stenbergin ranta.jpg

| caption = Offices of the AKT in Helsinki

}}

The Finnish Transport Workers' Union ({{langx|fi|Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto}}, AKT) is a trade union representing transport workers in Finland.

The union was founded in 1970, when the Automobile and Transport Workers' Union merged with the Finnish Road Transport Union, and the Finnish Port Workers' Union. Some of these unions had been affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions, and some to the Finnish Trade Union Federation. Soon after these two federations merged to form the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, the transport unions also merged.{{cite web |title=AKT:n historia |url=https://www.akt.fi/liitto/akt-n-historia/ |website=AKT |accessdate=3 March 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Ebbinghaus |first1=Bernhard |last2=Visser |first2=Jelle |title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 |date=2000 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |isbn=0333771125 |pages=216–219}}

By 1998, the union had 49,849 members, and this figure has remained fairly consistent. The union is based in Helsinki, and is divided into 121 professional groups. It is a member of the Nordic Transport Workers' Union, the European Transport Workers' Union, and the International Transport Workers' Federation.{{cite web |title=Liitto |url=https://www.akt.fi/liitto/ |website=AKT |accessdate=3 March 2020}}

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