Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees

Trade union in Sweden

Sweden

Members

72,156 (2018)^[1]

Key people

Gabriella Lavecchia, presidentAffiliationsLO, PSI, UNIWebsitewww.seko.se

The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees (Swedish: 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:^[2]^[3]

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.^[2]^[3]

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.^[2]

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

^ Kjellberg, Anders (2017). "The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century" (PDF). Lund University. p. 188. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kjellberg, Anders (2017). The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century. Lund University. p. 112–114. ISBN 9172673109.
^ ^a ^b Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 626–630. ISBN 0333771125.