Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees
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The Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees was a trade union
in Norway
, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
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It was founded in 1920, and its chairman the first fifteen years was Gunnar Sethil
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It had 240,000 members in 2000. In 2003 it was merged with the Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel to create the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
.
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 Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions is a national trade union center, decidedly the largest and probably the most influential umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway. The 21 national unions affiliated to the LO have more than 850,000 members of a Norwegian population of 4.8 million...
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It was founded in 1920, and its chairman the first fifteen years was Gunnar Sethil
Gunnar Sethil
Gunnar Sethil was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.He was born at Sethil in Brandval as a son of crofter Martin Olsen Sethil and Karen Bjerkerod . He graduated from agricultural school at Jønsberg in 1892. In his early career he worked as a forest and construction...
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It had 240,000 members in 2000. In 2003 it was merged with the Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel to create the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees is a trade union in Norway. It has a membership of 295,000 and is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions ....
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