Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union

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|name = HRF

|location_country= Sweden

|affiliation = LO, IUF

|members = 26,562

|full_name = Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union

|native_name = Hotell och Restaurang Facket

|native_name_lang = sv

|image = 75px

|founded = 31 March 1918

|dissolved =

|merged =

|headquarters = Stockholm, Sweden

|key_people = Ella Niia, president

|website = {{url|http://www.hrf.net}}

|footnotes =

}}

The Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union (HRF) is a trade union in Sweden.

History

The union was founded on 31 March 1918 in Gothenburg as the Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Personnel Union, bringing together local unions from Gothenburg, Helsingborg 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, 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.{{cite book |last1=Kjellberg |first1=Anders |title=The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century |date=2017 |publisher=Lund University |isbn=9172673109 |pages=109–111}}{{Cite book|title=Trade Unions of the World, 6th Edition|last=ICTUR|author-link=ICTUR|publisher=John Harper Publishing|year=2005|isbn=0-9543811-5-7|location=London, United Kingdom}}{{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 |page=626–630}}

Presidents

:1950: Arne Axelsson

:1968: Sigvard Nyström

:1978: Hans Billström

:1988: Seine Svensk

:1990s: Birgitta Kihlberg

:2005: Ella Niia

:2014: Therese Guovelin

:2016: Malin Ackholt

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.hrf.net}}

Category:Swedish Trade Union Confederation

Category:Hospitality industry trade unions

Category:Trade unions in Sweden

Category:Trade unions established in 1918

Category:1918 establishments in Sweden