Tjänstemännens Central Organization

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Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation (TCO; German : Central Organization of Employees ) is the Swedish trade union confederation for white-collar workers.

The Tjänstemännens Central Organization consists of 17 individual trade unions. The TCO represents the interests of employees in Sweden, while workers are organized in the umbrella organization LO and academics in the umbrella organization SACO .

TCO is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). In the membership list of the IGB, membership is given as 1,382,300 (as of November 2017).

The organization specifies e.g. B. also the TCO standard for ergonomic screens and awards corresponding seals of approval. It is supported in this area by the subsidiary TCO Development .

history

The first employee unions came into being in the 1930s: in 1931 DACO (De Anställdas Centralorganisation) and in 1937 TCO's predecessor organization. In 1944 the two unions merged to form today's TCO. At the time, the newly formed union federation had 100,000 members, but membership grew rapidly. The expansion of the public sector in the 1960s and 1970s and the growth of the service sector in favor of the industrial sector from the 1980s onwards resulted in an increase in membership. As of January 1, 2005, TCO had 1.275 million members. So about 72% (2019) of all employees and 60% of all workers are unionized.

Member unions

  • Farmaciförbundet
  • Finansförbundet
  • FTF - Facket för försäkring och finans
  • Försvarsförbundet
  • Journalistförbundet
  • Lärarförbundet
  • Polisförbundet
  • SFHL - Svenska folkhögskolans lärarförbund
  • SKTF - Sveriges kommuntjänstemannaförbund
  • SLF - Skogs- och lantbrukstjänstemannaförbundet
  • ST - Statstjänstemannaförbundet
  • SYMF - Sveriges yrkesmusikerförbund
  • Teaterförbundet
  • Tull-Kust
  • Unionen (The trade unions SIF (Svenska Industritjänstemannaförbundet) and HTF (Handelstjänstemannaförbundet) merged to Unionen on January 1, 2008)
  • Vårdförbundet

organization

The organs of the TCO are:

  • the Congress, the highest decision-making body, which meets every four years
  • the board

The head office is in Stockholm .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the national member associations in the ETUC , accessed on May 23, 2018
  2. ↑ IGB Membership List , accessed on May 23, 2018
  3. ↑ Anders Kjellberg (2020) Kollektivavtalens Tackningsgrad including organizational degrees hos arbetsgivarförbund och fackförbund , Department of Sociology, Lund University. Studies in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life and Mobility. Research Reports 2020: 1, Appendix 3 (in English) Table A

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