Swedish Food Workers' Union

Livs

Food Workers' Union
Livsmedelsarbetareförbundet
Founded	1 January 1922
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Location	Sweden
Members	22,877
Key people	Eva Gouvelin, president
Affiliations	LO, IUF
Website	www.livs.se

The Swedish Food Workers' Union (Swedish: Livsmedelsarbetareförbundet, Livs) is a trade union representing workers in the food and drink industries in Sweden.

The union was founded on 1 January 1922, when the Swedish Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union merged with the Swedish Butchers' Union. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. On foundation, it had 9,372 members, which had grown 38,053 by 1959. The Swedish Tobacco Industry Workers' Union joined in 1964, followed by the Swedish Brewery Industry Workers' Union in 1965, and the dairy workers' section of the Swedish Commercial Employees' Union in 1968. Its membership peaked at 53,131 in 1985, but had dropped to 22,877 by 2019.[1][2]

The Union launched a campaign called "Scandal" in December 2013 to highlight working conditions at Scan, Sweden's largest meat company. The campaign was successful and the Union signed an agreement with Scan.[3]

Presidents

1922: J. O. Ödlund

1923: John Rosenberg

1927: Hilding Molander

1948: Oscar Persson

1956: Anton Johansson

1966: Stig Ögersten

1969: Åke Berggren

1979: Lage Andréasson

1991: Kjell Varenblad

1996: Åke Södergren

2005: Hans-Olof Nilsson

2017: Eva Guovelin

References

1. Kjellberg, Anders (2017). The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century. Lund University. pp. 38–40. ISBN 9172673109.
2. ICTUR (2005). Trade Unions of the World, 6th Edition. London, United Kingdom: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
3. "Swedish food workers union combats invasion of temporary agency work at Scan | EFFAT". www.effat.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.