Wanja Lundby-Wedin
Wanja Elisabeth Lundby-Wedin (born October 19, 1952 in Enskede ) is a Swedish trade unionist. She is the chairman of the Swedish labor union umbrella organization Landsorganisation i Sverige (LO) and was President of the European Trade Union Confederation from 2007 to 2011 .
Life
Wanja Lundby-Wedin is the daughter of a truck driver and a housewife. She grew up in Stockholm and trained as a nurse . During her employment at the Central Hospital in Danderyd , she joined the Svenska Kommunalarbetareförbundet , the Swedish municipal workers' union . She became the shop steward for her department and was elected to the staff council. She became a full-time trade unionist and, in 1981, the representative of her union in Stockholm.
In 1994 Wanja Lundby-Wedin was elected deputy chairman of the Landsorganizations i Sverige and in 2000, the first woman to be elected chairman. This office of the organization founded in 1898 had mostly been held by men from Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet , the metalworkers' union, or from Träarbetareförbundet . Her predecessor had been Bertil Jonsson since 1994.
On May 25, 2007 in Seville at the congress of the European Trade Union Confederation, the umbrella organization of European trade unions based in Brussels, she was elected President. The association represents around 60 million union members in 36 countries.
At the beginning of 2009, she held positions on 24 boards , including AMF Pension, a Swedish pension fund administered by employers' associations and unions. Wanja Lundby-Wedin came under fire in March 2009 because she had agreed to a pension and bonus scheme in this function , which provided for a payment of the equivalent of ten million euros for the CEO after his departure. Criticism came in particular from three member unions of the LO. She resigned the supervisory board mandate and announced the abandonment of further supervisory board mandates.
Wanja Lundby-Wedin's other offices include board positions in Nordens Fackliga Samorganisation , the Council of Nordic Trade Unions, and in the International Trade Union Confederation . She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party and a member of the board of directors.
Wanja Lundby-Wedin is married and has two children. Her husband Lennart worked for Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet .
literature
- Reinhard Wolff: Wanja Lundby-Wedin - Saved by the good reputation . In: ver.di PUBLIK , May 2009 edition, p. 23.
Web links
- Wanja Lundby-Wedin on the side of the country organizations i Sverige (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation 2007 in Seville ( Memento of the original of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ The Voice of European Workers (ETUC brochure; PDF; 1.2 MB), p. 9
- ↑ Online publication
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lundby-Wedin, Vanya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lundby-Vedin, Vanja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Enskede |