Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees
{{short description|Trade union in Sweden}}
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|name = SEKO
|location_country= Sweden
|full_name = Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees
|native_name = Facket för Service och Kommunikation
|native_name_lang = sv
|image = 175px
|founded = 14 May 1970
|dissolved =
|merged =
|headquarters = Stockholm
|key_people = Gabriella Lavecchia, president
|website = {{url|http://www.seko.se}}
|footnotes =
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The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ({{langx|sv|Service- och Kommunikationsfacket}}, SEKO) is a trade union in Sweden.
History
The union was founded on 14 May 1970, as the Swedish National Union of State Employees (SF). It resulted from the merger of eight unions:{{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 |page=112–114}}{{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}}
- Employees' Union of State Power Stations
- Swedish Civil Administration's Employees' Union
- Swedish Defence Forces Civilian Employees' Union
- Swedish Post Union
- Swedish Prison Employees' Union
- Swedish Railway Employees' Union
- Swedish Road Workers' Union
- Swedish Tele Union
Like all its predecessors, the union affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. On formation, it had 145,350 members, and the number grew to 161,794 in 1986. The National Association of Civil Servants in Prisons split away in 1973.
In 1995, the union became SEKO. The following year, the Swedish Sailors' Union merged in, then in 1997 the Swedish Association of Engine Drivers split away. By 2019, it had a membership of 70,818.
The union is divided into nine branches:
- Rail transportation
- Public administration
- Postal
- Roads & Railways
- Telecom
- Correctional treatment
- Energy
- Defence
- Maritime
Presidents
:1970: Gustaf Kolare
:1973: Lars-Erik Nicklasson
:1984: Curt Persson
:1995: Gunnar Erlandsson
:1998: Sven-Olof Arbestål
:2002: Janne Rudén
:2017: Valle Karlsson
:2021: Gabriella Lavecchia
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.seko.se}}
- [http://www.open-up.se Open UP - handicap programme in Sweden (model based on Norwegian Telenor's handicap programme)] official site.
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