Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet

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Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet , also called Byggnads , is a Swedish construction workers' union. It is divided into 24 departments with 247 sections, in which around 125,000 members are organized, including 100,000 of working age.

The union represents 32 organized professional groups, including wood, concrete, mine and road construction workers, construction machinery operators, plumbing and ventilation fitters. Byggnads is a member of the Swedish trade union confederation Lands Organizations i Sverige (LO) and is the fifth largest individual trade union in the country. Byggnads has its origins in the woodworkers' union (Träarbetareförbundet) founded in 1889.

The Byggnads organ is the Byggnadsarbeteren magazine. The union is very committed to providing foreign workers with translators, foreign language contact phones and extensive material in the eight foreign languages ​​English, German, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Byggnads is a member of the Building and Woodworkers International (BWI), the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the Nordic Federation of Building and Woodworkers (NBTF). Byggnads President Hans Tilly is also President of the NBTF and a member of the Board of Directors of EFBWW and BWI.

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