Swedish Building Workers' Union
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The Swedish Building Workers' Union (Byggnads) is a trade union
in Sweden
. It was founded in 1949 and has a membership of 130,000 with 100,000 members of active working age. Byggnads represents workers in the construction sector.
Byggnads is affiliated with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation
, and the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
.
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It was founded in 1949 and has a membership of 130,000 with 100,000 members of active working age. Byggnads represents workers in the construction sector.
Byggnads is affiliated with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation
Swedish Trade Union Confederation
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation , commonly referred to as LO, is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fifteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers...
, and the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
The International Federation of Building and Wood Workers is a global union federation of trade unions in the building, building materials, wood, forestry and allied industries, established in 1934 by a merger of the Building Workers International and Wood Workers International...
.